Gulf: Nepali workers driven to migrate amid climate crises experience dangerous conditions after arrival as cos. fail to protect them from heat
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 4 Jun 2024
Standort: Saudi Arabien
Unternehmen
Larsen & Toubro - Employer , Saudi Aramco - Other Value Chain EntityBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Bau , Men , Unknown migration status )Themen
Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Krankheit , Medikamentenzugang , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure TimeAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von Journalist
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: Migrant-Rights.Org contacted both companies. Neither responded.
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 4 Jun 2024
Standort: Saudi Arabien
Unternehmen
Saudi Aramco - Other Value Chain Entity , Al Rashid Trading & Contracting - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Bau , Men , Unknown migration status )Themen
Contract Substitution , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Einschüchterung & Drohungen , Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Krankheit , Irregular WorkAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von Journalist
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: The companies did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 4 Jun 2024
Standort: Saudi Arabien
Unternehmen
Al Saeed General Contracting - Employer , HungerStation (part of Delivery Hero) - Other Value Chain EntityBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Eilzustellung , Men , Unknown migration status )Themen
Excessive production targets , Krankheit , Verletzungen , Occupational Health & Safety , Personalbeschaffungsgebühren , Recht auf Nahrung , Restricted mobility , Poverty Wages , Medikamentenzugang , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Einschüchterung & DrohungenAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von Journalist
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: The company did not respond to Migration-Rights.Org
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 4 Jun 2024
Standort: Katar
Unternehmen
Red Links Construction - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Bau , Men , Unknown migration status )Themen
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Denial of leave , Krankheit , Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Medikamentenzugang , Excessive production targets , Wasserzugang , PersonalbeschaffungsgebührenAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von Journalist
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: The company did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 4 Jul 2024
Standort: Katar
Unternehmen
Al-Wakeel Trading & Contracting - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Bau , Men , Unknown migration status )Themen
Occupational Health & Safety , Verletzungen , Personalbeschaffungsgebühren , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure TimeAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von Journalist
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: 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.
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 4 Jun 2024
Standort: Saudi Arabien
Unternehmen
Arabian Decoration - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Einzelhandel , Men , Unknown migration status )Themen
Tote , Occupational Health & Safety , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Access to Non-Judicial RemedyAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von Journalist
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: The company did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org.
Art der Quelle: 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]