‘We lie on the floor till someone buys us’: shocking allegations of UAE agencies’ abuse of domestic workers
Résumé
Date indiquée: 12 Oct 2023
Lieu: Émirats arabes unis
Autre
Not Reported ( Cabinets de recrutement ) - RecruiterConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: Chiffre inconnu
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Philippines , Agences de placement de personnel de maison , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Conditions de vie précaires/inadaptées , Déni de liberté d'expression , Conservation des documents d'identitéRéponse
Response sought: Non
Mesures prises: None reported.
Type de source: News outlet
Résumé
Date indiquée: 12 Oct 2023
Lieu: Émirats arabes unis
Autre
Not Reported ( Cabinets de recrutement ) - RecruiterConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: 1
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Kenya , Agences de placement de personnel de maison , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Salaires de misère , Respect de la vie privée , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Intimidation et menaces , Refus de congéRéponse
Response sought: Non
Mesures prises: None reported.
Type de source: News outlet
Résumé
Date indiquée: 12 Oct 2023
Lieu: Émirats arabes unis
Entreprises
Maids.cc - RecruiterConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: Chiffre inconnu
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Asie et Pacifique , Agences de placement de personnel de maison , Gender not reported ) , Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Afrique , Agences de placement de personnel de maison , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Discrimination fondée sur la race/l'ethnie/les castes/les origines , Access to Non-Judicial RemedyRéponse
Réponse demandée : Oui, par The Guardian
Mesures prises: Maids.cc did not respond to request for comment.
Type de source: News outlet
Résumé
Date indiquée: 12 Oct 2023
Lieu: Émirats arabes unis
Entreprises
Leadership Tadbeer/ Tadbeer WTC - Recruiter , TikTok (part of ByteDance) - Other Value Chain Entity , Meta (formerly Facebook) - Other Value Chain EntityConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: Chiffre inconnu
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Éthiopie , Agences de placement de personnel de maison , Women , Documented migrants ) , Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Sri Lanka , Agences de placement de personnel de maison , Women , Documented migrants ) , Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Indonésie , Agences de placement de personnel de maison , Women , Documented migrants )Enjeux
Discrimination fondée sur la race/l'ethnie/les castes/les origines , Respect de la vie privéeRéponse
Réponse demandée : Oui, par The Guardian; the Resource Centre
Affaire contenant la réponse: (En savoir plus)
Mesures prises: Tadbeer provided comment to the Guardian; responses from TikTok and Meta can be read in full.
Type de source: News outlet
Résumé
Date indiquée: 12 Oct 2023
Lieu: Émirats arabes unis
Entreprises
Al Forsan Tadbeer - Recruiter , Meta (formerly Facebook) - Other Value Chain Entity , Instagram (part of Meta) - Other Value Chain EntityConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: Chiffre inconnu
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( Chiffre inconnu - Lieu inconnu , Agences de placement de personnel de maison , Women , Documented migrants )Enjeux
Discrimination fondée sur la race/l'ethnie/les castes/les origines , Respect de la vie privéeRéponse
Réponse demandée : Oui, par Journalist; Resource Centre
Affaire contenant la réponse: (En savoir plus)
Mesures prises: Al Forsan did not respond to request for comment. The Resource Centre invited Meta to respond to the allegations; the response can be read in full.
Type de source: News outlet
Women seeking jobs as domestic workers in the UAE allege they are being detained and abused in squalid accommodation, while recruiters sell them over apps and social media platforms to household employers, according to interviews and documents seen by the Guardian...
The women’s testimony gives a rare insight into what life is like in domestic worker agency accommodation as migrants wait, in limbo, for an employer to take them on...
UAE recruitment agencies routinely advertise the women they are holding for sale online. The Guardian has located dozens of these adverts on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, where women’s photos are displayed, alongside their personal information, where prospective buyers leave comments on the pages and inquire about prices...
Maids.cc, a licensed recruitment agency, has an app and website from where people can select, order and pay for a maid without even meeting her first...
The monthly prices users pay per maid are according to race, the website states – with employers charged less for the services of a black maid. “Filipinas AED3,500 ($952)/month” and “Africans AED2,700 ($735)/month,” it states, but does not disclose the amount of the payment that is actually received by the maid in salary...
Separately, another agency, Leadership Tadbeer (sometimes known as Tadbeer WTC), in Abu Dhabi, advertises maids on TikTok and Instagram. On Instagram, the women advertised are from Indonesia, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka. Their services are being sold for between AED1,100 and AED1,400 a month...
A spokesperson for Leadership Tadbeer said: “Regarding the issue you highlighted, here in the UAE our minister of human resources has organised the relationship between the sponsor, worker and agents.
“Regarding the salary, don’t forget there is also free accommodation, free food, free personal staff, phone allowance and good health insurance. You can see here in UAE, more than 200 nationalities live together safely. Everyone here respects each other.”
Meanwhile, the Dubai-based Al Forsan Tadbeer agency adverts on Instagram and Facebook list the maid’s names, ages, marital status, passport number, nationality, number of children and weight, and describe their “complexion” in terms such as “fair”, “black”, etc, alongside their photographs...
Maids.cc and Al Forsan did not respond to multiple requests for comment.