UAE turns a blind eye to rampant abuse of its visit visa; employer-pays model only on paper
요약
보고된 날짜: 2021년 9월 20일
위치: 아랍에미리트
기업 페이지
Reliance HR Manpower - Recruiter영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 위치를 알 수 없음 , 중개 업소 , Gender not reported )토픽들
직업소개수수료 , 이동 제한 , 이동의 자유결과
Response sought: 아니오
시행된 조치: A director of one of the companies was sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment and fined USD200.
출처: NGO
요약
보고된 날짜: 2021년 9월 20일
위치: 아랍에미리트
기업 페이지
Nepal Manpower - Recruiter영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 위치를 알 수 없음 , 중개 업소 , Gender not reported )토픽들
직업소개수수료 , 이동 제한 , 이동의 자유결과
Response sought: 아니오
시행된 조치: A director of one of the companies was sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment and fined USD200.
출처: NGO
요약
보고된 날짜: 2021년 9월 20일
위치: 아랍에미리트
기타
Not Reported ( 청소 및 유지보수 ) - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 1
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - 네팔 , 청소 및 유지보수 , Gender not reported )토픽들
위협 , 직업소개수수료결과
Response sought: 아니오
시행된 조치: Not reported.
출처: NGO
요약
보고된 날짜: 2021년 9월 20일
위치: 아랍에미리트
기업 페이지
Group-2 Security - Unknown , Hawk Security Services - Unknown , Link Star Manpower - Unknown영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 15
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 15 - 네팔 , 보안 회사 , Gender not reported )토픽들
위협 , 식량권 , 직업소개수수료 , 비자 갱신 실패 , 불안정한/불적합한 생활환경 , 이동 제한 , 여권 압류 , 개인 건강 , 임금 착취 , 이동의 자유결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Resource Centre; Migrant-Rights.org에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: 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.
출처: NGO
요약
보고된 날짜: 2021년 9월 20일
위치: 아랍에미리트
기업 페이지
EFS Facilities Services - Unknown , Kalinchok Manpower - Unknown영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 네팔 , 청소 및 유지보수 , Gender not reported )토픽들
임금 착취결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: 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.
출처: 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.