‘We lie on the floor till someone buys us’: shocking allegations of UAE agencies’ abuse of domestic workers
要約
Date Reported: 2023年10月12日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
その他
Not Reported ( 人材紹介会社 ) - Recruiter関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - フィリピン , 家事代行会社 , Gender not reported )課題
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 表現の自由の否定 , Withholding Passports回答
Response sought: いいえ
取られた措置: None reported.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2023年10月12日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
その他
Not Reported ( 人材紹介会社 ) - Recruiter関連
Total individuals affected: 1
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - ケニア , 家事代行会社 , Gender not reported )課題
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Poverty Wages , プライバシー , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , 威嚇及び脅迫 , Denial of leave回答
Response sought: いいえ
取られた措置: None reported.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2023年10月12日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
企業
Maids.cc - Recruiter関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - アジア・太平洋 , 家事代行会社 , Gender not reported ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - アフリカ , 家事代行会社 , Gender not reported )課題
人種/民族/カースト/オリジン差別 , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy回答
Response sought: Yes, by The Guardian
取られた措置: Maids.cc did not respond to request for comment.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2023年10月12日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
企業
Leadership Tadbeer/ Tadbeer WTC - Recruiter , TikTok (part of ByteDance) - Other Value Chain Entity , Meta (formerly Facebook) - Other Value Chain Entity関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - インドネシア , 家事代行会社 , Gender not reported ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - エチオピア , 家事代行会社 , Gender not reported ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - スリランカ , 家事代行会社 , Gender not reported )課題
人種/民族/カースト/オリジン差別 , プライバシー回答
Response sought: Yes, by The Guardian; the Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: Tadbeer provided comment to the Guardian; responses from TikTok and Meta can be read in full.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2023年10月12日
場所: アラブ首長国連邦
企業
Al Forsan Tadbeer - Recruiter , Instagram (part of Meta) - Other Value Chain Entity , Meta (formerly Facebook) - Other Value Chain Entity関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , 家事代行会社 , Gender not reported )課題
プライバシー , 人種/民族/カースト/オリジン差別回答
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist; Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: 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.
情報源のタイプ: 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.