"Migrant workers sent back before contract ended", 15 Dec 2022

Jitendra Kumar Jha ... paid Rs 2 lakh to an agent ... hoping to land a waiter's job at a hotel in Qatar. He was promised a contract of two years with a monthly salary of 1,800 Qatari riyal (over Rs 64,000) per month for eight hours of daily work.

But upon reaching Qatar in February, Jha was forced to clean drains and wash dishes among other chores for over 15 hours a day and received just 1,000 riyals per month at New Taxi Restaurant before being sent back in just two-and-a-half months [along with five other Nepali employees from other companies] ...

Jha and his friends were not the only ones being sent home by their companies from Qatar.

According to him, the airport was mostly filled with migrant workers on their way home. The majority of them were either being sent home abruptly by their companies before their contract ended or without full pay, he said.

[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre was unable to find contact information for New Taxi Restaurant to invite them to respond to the report.]