Gulf: Nepali workers driven to migrate amid climate crises experience dangerous conditions after arrival as cos. fail to protect them from heat
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 4 Jun 2024
Ubicación: Arabia Saudita
Empresas
Larsen & Toubro - Employer , Saudi Aramco - Other Value Chain EntityAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: Número desconocido
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( Número desconocido - Nepal , Construcción , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Enfermedades , Acceso a medicinas , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure TimeRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Journalist
Medidas adoptadas: Migrant-Rights.Org contacted both companies. Neither responded.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 4 Jun 2024
Ubicación: Nepal
Empresas
Al Rashid Trading & Contracting - Employer , Saudi Aramco - Other Value Chain EntityAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: Número desconocido
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( Número desconocido - Nepal , Construcción , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Irregular Work , Intimidación y Amenazas , Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Enfermedades , Contract SubstitutionRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Journalist
Medidas adoptadas: The companies did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 4 Jun 2024
Ubicación: Arabia Saudita
Empresas
Al Saeed General Contracting - Employer , HungerStation (part of Delivery Hero) - Other Value Chain EntityAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: Número desconocido
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( Número desconocido - Nepal , Envíos rápidos , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Excessive production targets , Enfermedades , Lesiones/Heridas , Occupational Health & Safety , Tasas de contratación , Derecho a la alimentación , Restricted mobility , Poverty Wages , Acceso a medicinas , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Intimidación y AmenazasRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Journalist
Medidas adoptadas: The company did not respond to Migration-Rights.Org
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 4 Jun 2024
Ubicación: Catar
Empresas
Red Links Construction - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: Número desconocido
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( Número desconocido - Nepal , Construcción , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Denial of leave , Enfermedades , Heat exposure , Occupational Health & Safety , Acceso a medicinas , Excessive production targets , Acceso al agua , Tasas de contrataciónRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Journalist
Medidas adoptadas: The company did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 4 Jul 2024
Ubicación: Catar
Empresas
Al-Wakeel Trading & Contracting - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: Número desconocido
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( Número desconocido - Nepal , Construcción , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Occupational Health & Safety , Lesiones/Heridas , Tasas de contratación , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure TimeRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Journalist
Medidas adoptadas: 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.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 4 Jun 2024
Ubicación: Arabia Saudita
Empresas
Arabian Decoration - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: Número desconocido
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( Número desconocido - Nepal , Minoristas/Ventas al detal , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Muertes , Occupational Health & Safety , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Access to Non-Judicial RemedyRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Journalist
Medidas adoptadas: The company did not respond to Migrant-Rights.Org.
Tipo de fuente: 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]