Without work and salary, Nepali migrant workers protest in Covid-hit UAE
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 18 May 2020
Ubicación: Emiratos Árabes Unidos
Empresas
Altrad - Employer , AMB Hertel - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 500
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 500 - Nepal , Petróleo, gas y carbón , Gender not reported )Temas
Tasas de contratación , Robo de salariosRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Resource Centre
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Medidas adoptadas: Company did not respond. The workers took strike action at the company premises and prevent other workers going to work. They state that they should either be paid their due wages for the time they have been kept off work or be repatriated by the Nepal government.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Hundreds of Nepali migrant workers have gone on strike in the United Arab Emirates as their employers have not paid them salaries for the last two months.
Nearly 500 workers, employed at an oil and gas company in Ruwais of Abu Dhabi, have stopped going to work, protesting against their employer for not giving them work and not clearing their dues...
According to the agitated workers, most of them have been confined to their apartment for the last two months without work while the company has not paid them anything for the period.