21 Zimbabweans stuck in Kuwait
الملخص
Date Reported: 17 أغسطس 2020
الموقع: الكويت
الشركات
Explomo Technical Services - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 125
عمال مهاجرون: ( 29 - موزمبيق , الشؤون العسكرية والأسلحة والتجهيزات الأمنية: عامة , Gender not reported ) , عمال مهاجرون: ( 75 - Location unknown , الشؤون العسكرية والأسلحة والتجهيزات الأمنية: عامة , Gender not reported ) , عمال مهاجرون: ( 21 - زيمبابوي , الشؤون العسكرية والأسلحة والتجهيزات الأمنية: عامة , Gender not reported )القضايا
الوفيات , الحق في الغذاء , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Personal Health , Wage Theft , الحرمان من حرية التنقلالرد
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre
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الإجراءات المتخذة: The report states that the workers have appealed to both Kuwait and Zimbabwean embassies but had not yet received help. In June they staged a demonstration after they had been unable to contact the authorities "due to the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions". The Kuwait Ministry of Labour has reportedly ordered the Kuwaiti project sponsor (Sudan Regional Trading & Contracting Co.) to pay the salaries; despite agreeing to do so, the sponsor had not. The workers continue to survive on handouts and have stated they are afraid, with no one to safeguard their health.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
"21 Zimbabweans stuck in Kuwait," 17 Aug 2020
A group of Zimbabweans employed by [Explomo Technical Services] to work in Kuwait has been left stranded after the company dumped them without paying them their salaries.
The workers were employed in 2018 by Explomo Technical Services as de-mining experts but were later abandoned by their employer at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic...
“When we came here in 2018, we received our salaries as usual and the working conditions were average but since the beginning of the COVID-19 (pandemic), the chief finance officer and other senior managers left for Singapore...
“We have not been paid our December 2019 salaries and to make matters worse, our company abandoned us at a camp in Kuwait in March. The management left for Singapore and never came back,” [said a Zimbabwean worker]...
The deserted employees include 21 Zimbabweans, 29 Mozambicans, and 75 other nationals.