The document cited two clauses that prohibit workers from being held in "debt bondage" and "involuntary servitude."
Contract for Medical Placement Services Inc.
g) Should Client be terminated for cause, or voluntarily leave without just cause, the employment obtained on his/her behalf by MPSI, prior to fulfilling the employment contract negotiated by MPSI, Client agrees that the damages to MPSI caused by his/her breach of this contract will be difficult to ascertain and the parties agree that a liquidated damages sum of $2,500.00 will constitute appropriate compensation to MPSI for Client's breach of contract.
5. Indemnity: Client agrees to indemnify and hold MPSI harmless against any loss or liability of any nature whatsoever resulting from any claim asserted against MPSI arising directly or indirectly out of any action or inaction by Client occurring in connection ... agreement.
From the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
Debt Bondage:
The term "debt bondage" means the status or condition of a debtor arising from a pledge by the debtor of his or her personal services or of those of a person under his or her control as a security for debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined.
Involuntary Servitude:
The term "involuntary servitude" includes a condition of servitude induced by means of (A) Any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that, if the person did not enter into or continue in such condition, that person or another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint; or (B) The abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process.