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17 Oct 2017

Author:
Hom Karki, The Kathmandu Post

Qatar: Cleaning company fails to pay migrant workers, renew visas & provide adequate housing; company evades contact

"1300 Nepali migrant workers laid off in Qatar", 15 Oct 2017

Around 2500 foreign workers including 1300 Nepalis have been laid following the downfall of United Cleaning Company based in Qatar...the company failed to provide salary to its staff for the past three months and has not renewed the visa of migrant workers. Victims have filed a complaint at Qatar’s Labour Department and court…the company has placed male and female workers in separate camps and electricity supply has been cut off to one of the camps housing female workers.

“No company representative has come in contact…” said Karki [Renu Karki of Ilam]…Although Qatar’s Labour Department has asked the company’s operators to furnish clarification, they have not reached the Department.

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