Gulf: Nepali workers driven to migrate amid climate crises experience dangerous conditions after arrival as cos. fail to protect them from heat
الملخص
Date Reported: 4 يونيو 2024
الموقع: السعودية (المملكة العربية)
الشركات
Larsen & Toubro - Employer , Saudi Aramco - Other Value Chain Entityالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - نيبال , البناء , Men , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , المرض , الوصول والحصول على الأدوية , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Timeالرد
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
الإجراءات المتخذة: Migrant-Rights.Org contacted both companies. Neither responded.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 4 يونيو 2024
الموقع: نيبال
الشركات
Al Rashid Trading & Contracting - Employer , Saudi Aramco - Other Value Chain Entityالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - نيبال , البناء , Men , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Irregular Work , الترهيب والتهديد , Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , المرض , Contract Substitutionالرد
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
الإجراءات المتخذة: The companies did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 4 يونيو 2024
الموقع: السعودية (المملكة العربية)
الشركات
Al Saeed General Contracting - Employer , HungerStation (part of Delivery Hero) - Other Value Chain Entityالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - نيبال , التوصيل السريع , Men , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Excessive production targets , المرض , الإصابات , Occupational Health & Safety , رسوم التوظيف , الحق في الغذاء , Restricted mobility , Poverty Wages , الوصول والحصول على الأدوية , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , الترهيب والتهديدالرد
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
الإجراءات المتخذة: The company did not respond to Migration-Rights.Org
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 4 يونيو 2024
الموقع: قطر
الشركات
Red Links Construction - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - نيبال , البناء , Men , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Denial of leave , المرض , Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , الوصول والحصول على الأدوية , Excessive production targets , الحصول على المياه , رسوم التوظيفالرد
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
الإجراءات المتخذة: The company did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 4 يوليو 2024
الموقع: قطر
الشركات
Al-Wakeel Trading & Contracting - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - نيبال , البناء , Men , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Occupational Health & Safety , الإصابات , رسوم التوظيف , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Timeالرد
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
الإجراءات المتخذة: Upendra spent two years at the Rumailah Hospital, struggling to survive. In 2021, he was sent home on a stretcher. Now, he spends days in a wheelchair and nights lying in a bed, unable to speak and identify people. The company did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 4 يونيو 2024
الموقع: السعودية (المملكة العربية)
الشركات
Arabian Decoration - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - نيبال , البيع بالمفرق , Men , Unknown migration status )القضايا
الوفيات , Occupational Health & Safety , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Access to Non-Judicial Remedyالرد
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
الإجراءات المتخذة: The company did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
““From Frying Pan to Fire”: From Climate-Stricken Villages in Nepal To Extreme Heat in Gulf, Workers Risk Lives for Livelihoods”
Driven from their fields by increasingly erratic weather patterns … more Nepali farmers are migrating in search of new livelihoods. But their escape from one climate disaster lands them in another, with rising temperatures in the Gulf…
Ramesh Yadav had never experienced extreme heat until he arrived in Saudi Arabia…
…Ramesh headed to Saudi to work for … Aramco…
…Ramesh works at Aramco’s gas plant through L&T Hydrocarbon…
…he was told by the recruitment firm that he would be directly employed … But when he arrived in the Kingdom, he ended up with a labour supplier called Al-Rashid Trading & Contracting Company…
Bishal Mandal delivers Hunger Station food…
Because of the difficult job and unbearable weather, he has fallen sick many times…
…his employer, Al Saeed General Contracting, refused to pay for medicine. ..
…His company, Red Links Construction, forced him to work 12 hours a day outdoors…
Upendra met his misfortune within four months of starting work for Al Wakeel Trading and Contracting…
Sabir’s employer, Arabian Decoration Est., didn’t explain his cause of death to the family, …
[Migrant-Rights.Org contacted all companies named in the article for comment. No companies responded]