Gulf: Nepali workers driven to migrate amid climate crises experience dangerous conditions after arrival as cos. fail to protect them from heat
Summary
Date Reported: 4 Jun 2024
Location: Saudi Arabia
Companies
Larsen & Toubro - Employer , Saudi Aramco - Other Value Chain EntityAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Illness , Restricted access to medicines , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure TimeResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
Action taken: Migrant-Rights.Org contacted both companies. Neither responded.
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 4 Jun 2024
Location: Nepal
Companies
Al Rashid Trading & Contracting - Employer , Saudi Aramco - Other Value Chain EntityAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Irregular Work , Intimidation , Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Illness , Contract SubstitutionResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
Action taken: The companies did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 4 Jun 2024
Location: Saudi Arabia
Companies
Al Saeed General Contracting - Employer , HungerStation (part of Delivery Hero) - Other Value Chain EntityAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Express delivery , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Excessive production targets , Illness , Injuries , Occupational Health & Safety , Recruitment Fees , Right to Food , Restricted mobility , Poverty Wages , Restricted access to medicines , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , IntimidationResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
Action taken: The company did not respond to Migration-Rights.Org
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 4 Jun 2024
Location: Qatar
Companies
Red Links Construction - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Denial of leave , Illness , Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Restricted access to medicines , Excessive production targets , Access to Water , Recruitment FeesResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
Action taken: The company did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 4 Jul 2024
Location: Qatar
Companies
Al-Wakeel Trading & Contracting - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Occupational Health & Safety , Injuries , Recruitment Fees , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure TimeResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
Action taken: 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.
Source type: News outlet
Summary
Date Reported: 4 Jun 2024
Location: Saudi Arabia
Companies
Arabian Decoration - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Nepal , Retail , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Deaths , Occupational Health & Safety , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Access to Non-Judicial RemedyResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
Action taken: The company did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org.
Source type: 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]