UAE turns a blind eye to rampant abuse of its visit visa; employer-pays model only on paper
要約
Date Reported: 2021年9月20日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
企業
Reliance HR Manpower - Recruiter関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , 人材紹介会社 , Gender not reported )課題
採用費 , Restricted mobility , 移動の自由の否定回答
Response sought: いいえ
取られた措置: A director of one of the companies was sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment and fined USD200.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
要約
Date Reported: 2021年9月20日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
企業
Nepal Manpower - Recruiter関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , 人材紹介会社 , Gender not reported )課題
採用費 , Restricted mobility , 移動の自由の否定回答
Response sought: いいえ
取られた措置: A director of one of the companies was sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment and fined USD200.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
要約
Date Reported: 2021年9月20日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
その他
Not Reported ( クリーニング及びメンテナンス ) - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: 1
移住者・移民労働者: ( 1 - ネパール , クリーニング及びメンテナンス , Gender not reported )課題
威嚇及び脅迫 , 採用費回答
Response sought: いいえ
取られた措置: Not reported.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
要約
Date Reported: 2021年9月20日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
企業
Group-2 Security - Unknown , Hawk Security Services - Unknown , Link Star Manpower - Unknown関連
Total individuals affected: 15
移住者・移民労働者: ( 15 - ネパール , 警備会社 , Gender not reported )課題
威嚇及び脅迫 , 食の権利 , 採用費 , Failing to renew visas , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , Wage Theft , 移動の自由の否定回答
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre; Migrant-Rights.org
Story containing response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: The counsel director of Link Star Manpower admitted that the company had sent "some" youths abroad on tourist visas. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Link Star, Hawk Security and Group-2 Security to respond to the article. Group-2 Security provided a response; Link Star and Hawk Security did not.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
要約
Date Reported: 2021年9月20日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
企業
EFS Facilities Services - Unknown , Kalinchok Manpower - Unknown関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - ネパール , クリーニング及びメンテナンス , Gender not reported )課題
Wage Theft回答
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre contacted both companies to invite them to respond to the article. Kalinchok stated that they had since changed workers salaries to match AED900 per month. EFS provided a response which did not address the key allegation.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
With Covid-19-related restrictions on formal recruitment, more and more Nepali migrant workers are going to the UAE on visit visas. Though technically legal under UAE law, Nepal’s government bans workers from travelling on visit visas for the purposes of employment. These migrants often end up paying extortionately high fees for non-existent jobs, with none of the legal protections formally recruited workers are entitled to...
the Department of Foreign Employment permitted Kalinchowk Manpower Company to recruit workers to EFS Facilities Services based on EFS’ proposal to pay a minimum of AED900. But the offer letter handed over to migrant workers (and reviewed by MR) indicates their basic monthly salary is just AED600...
Earlier this year, the Department of Foreign Employment caught two agencies – Nepal Manpower Pvt. Ltd. and Reliance HR Manpower – charging migrants exorbitant fees for visit visas to the UAE. One of the directors was sentenced to one year and six months imprisonment, and fined NPR25,000 by the Foreign Employment Tribunal...
“Link Star agents promised us jobs as security guards and said the visa type doesn’t affect us. We trusted them,” said Rajendra. Unemployed and desperate for work, Tejendra and his four friends paid NPR250,000 (USD$2,150) each to the agents...
“We later realised the visit visa doesn’t allow us to work – they (agents) cheated us.”
Harka Mani Rai, counsel director of Link Star Manpower, admitted that his company had sent ‘some’ youth for foreign employment on tourist visas...
Under immense pressure from ‘Sultan’ and Link Star, the five youths worked for a week at Hawk Security Services in Sonapur, according to Suraj. When a month later, the manager discovered they were working under fake ID cards, they were kicked out. Suraj says they also worked at Group-2 Securities in Deira for a few days, but were kicked out again when their two-month visit visa expired in May. None of them received payment for the days they worked.