Stranded workers in Saudi Arabia plead for help as economy falters
요약
보고된 날짜: 2016년 8월 22일
위치: 사우디아라비아
기업 페이지
United Seemac - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 500
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 인도 , 시공 , Gender not reported ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 인도네시아 , 시공 , Gender not reported ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 파키스탄 , 시공 , Gender not reported ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 필리핀 , 시공 , Gender not reported ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 예멘 , 시공 , Gender not reported )토픽들
식량권 , 불안정한/불적합한 생활환경 , 이동 제한 , 여권 압류 , 개인 건강 , 임금 착취 , 이동의 자유결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Journalist에 의해 요청됨
시행된 조치: Two strikes took place outside the company office a month after the situation was reported. Workers stated they had filed cases with the labour court in 2015.
출처: News outlet
Workers at a construction company in Saudi Arabia have issued an urgent plea for help, saying they are trapped and facing starvation because their employer is refusing to pay salaries or grant them permission to leave the country. Foreign staff at building firm United Seemac told MEE [Middle East Eye] the company's 500-plus employees have not been paid in months and that both the Saudi government and their embassies have done little to solve their increasingly desperate crisis...
One Pakistani worker, who has not been paid in 10 months, said no one is helping them because they do not work for one of the kingdom’s larger companies...“Nobody knows the situation for employees working at small companies...All the attention is on the big companies – it’s easy to ignore us because we are not so many people."
[The company's] owner declined to answer any questions in several telephone calls with MEE. However, the company’s general manager...told MEE that it is unable to pay employees because the government has failed to pay them for completed contract work.
Saudi authorities have repeatedly said they are trying to solve the problem of unpaid workers. King Salman has ordered companies including Saudi Oger to pay staff the money they are owed, although there has been little official comment about the issue of unpaid government contracts...[also refers to Saudi Binladin Group].