“We don’t want to die in this desert”: Nepali workers in the UAE plead to be brought home
요약
보고된 날짜: 2020년 4월 16일
위치: 아랍에미리트
기업 페이지
Emirates Cab - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 40
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 40 - 네팔 , 운송: 일반 , Gender not reported )토픽들
식량권 , 직업소개수수료 , 계약 대체 , 불안정한/불적합한 생활환경 , 빈곤 임금 , 임금 착취결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: In February 2020, 10 Nepalis were repatriated following negotiations with the company. On 20 March, a Nepali welfare charity found two rooms of accommodation for the men but the workers would have had to leave unless they could pay the second month's rent. Owing to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and related travel bans, it is uncertain when the remaining workers will be able to return home. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre contacted Emirates Cab Co. and invited them to respond to the allegations; they did not respond. By 4th July, at least 15 men had returned to Nepal penniless after their airfares were paid by the recruiting agency in Kathmandu. They were not asked if their company had paid them as they left UAE, but only for health details before being taken to quarantining on arrival in Nepal.
출처: News outlet
From mid-February to mid-March, [40 Nepalis] slept on the sidewalks and in public parks, surviving on food [donations]... After they resigned from their job, which was neither paying them as promised nor providing accommodation, they had... no place to live and no money...
[The workers] all migrated to the UAE to work as taxi drivers for Emirates Cab seven months ago...
They had been promised 1,500 dirham, approximately Rs49,585, as salary and an additional 300 dirham for food, besides accommodation... once they were given taxis, they were evicted...
They were paid between 100 and 200 dirham, when it cost them an average of 300 dirham for accommodations and another 300 for food.