HRAS: 30 seafarers stranded in the UAE without pay for over a year, suffering from poor health
要約
Date Reported: 2018年10月12日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
企業
Elite Way Marine Services - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: 10
移住者・移民労働者: ( 1 - スーダン , 海運、造船、船舶のスクラップ , Gender not reported ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( 8 - インド , 海運、造船、船舶のスクラップ , Gender not reported ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , 海運、造船、船舶のスクラップ , Gender not reported )課題
採用費 , Restricted mobility , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 食の権利 , 威嚇及び脅迫 , Personal Health , Wage Theft , 移動の自由の否定回答
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
取られた措置: In February 2019 the UAE Federal Transport Authority and Mission to Seafarers took action against Elite Way Marine Services and seized the vessel. Elite Way Marine Services had promised to pay outstanding salaries to the ten searfarers onboard the Azraqmoiah as well as other ships, by selling vessels. Consequently most crew members left the ship in April 2019, accepting 40-60% of their owed salaries. The Captain, a cook from India, and the chief officer from Sudan, were finally repatriated in June 2019. The Captain said he had been paid 80% of the wages owing to him. The operations manager of Elite Way Marine Services stated that the company had been experiencing financial difficulties but that they would raise the money for the owed salaries by selling vessels.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
要約
Date Reported: 2018年12月10日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
企業
Elite Way Marine Services - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: 9
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , 海運、造船、船舶のスクラップ , Gender not reported ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( 7 - インド , 海運、造船、船舶のスクラップ , Gender not reported )課題
Restricted mobility , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 食の権利 , Personal Health , Wage Theft , 移動の自由の否定回答
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
取られた措置: In May 2019, the ship's owner offered the crew payment of 50% of the owed wages; the majority of the crew accepted this with no further negotiation. In June 2019, the remaining four crew members left the ship in the one remaining lifeboat in desperation, but were forcibly returned to the ship by the UAE coastguard. The four sailors were later towed back to a UAE port. As of August 8th 2019, the crew had been ashore in the UAE awaiting the resolution of their case; they had informed Human Rights at Sea that their case had been lodged as a criminal complaint with the UAE Coastguard. The operations manager of Elite Way Marine Services stated to that the company had been experiencing financial difficulties but that they would raise the money for the owed salaries by selling vessels. In December 2019, it was reported in the National that the four seafarers had finalised an agreement with their employer to receive 80% of their wages. They were owed a total of US$250,000 between them.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
要約
Date Reported: 2018年12月10日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
企業
Elite Way Marine Services - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: 2
移住者・移民労働者: ( 2 - インド , 海運、造船、船舶のスクラップ , Gender not reported )課題
Restricted mobility , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 食の権利 , Personal Health , Wage Theft , 移動の自由の否定回答
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
取られた措置: The operations manager of Elite Way Marine Services stated to that the company had been experiencing financial difficulties but that they would raise the money for the owed salaries by selling vessels.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
"HRAS Case Study: Seafarers' Abdonment in the UAE", December 2018
Human Rights at Sea [HRAS] has been made aware of a series of human rights and labour abusive practices against seafarers on board three vessels in the UAE belonging to the ship-owner company Elite Way Marine Services EST, incorporated in Dubai. About thirty... seafarers contacted... HRAS to report their situation... [T]he seafarers... suffer from physical and mental health conditions and are owed more than a year's salary each... Sanitary conditions are absent from all three vessels. There are no sufficient suppliers of food and fresh water and no medical assistance. The crew has reported that they have also been deprived of their travel and identificatiojn documents, which were confiscated by the UAE authorities... [T]he Federal Transport Authority (FTA) in UAE has taken legal action and banned Elite Way Marine Services EST... on the grounds of seafarers abandonment. Seafarers contend that the owner and management are telling the FTA that they will sell the vessels and then resolve the issue soon. Yet so far there has been no action...