Bahrain: Report finds migrant workers continue to bear cost of salary non-payments, despite protections
Resumo
Data informada: 13 Out 2019
Localização: Barein
Empresas
Ramses Trading Co. - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Localização desconhecida , Construção Civil , Gender not reported )Temas
Privação da liberdade de expressão , Roubo de saláriosResposta
Response sought: Não
Medidas tomadas: The protests were dispersed by riot police.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 13 Out 2019
Localização: Barein
Empresas
Sonar Security - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 200
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Bangladesh , Empresas de Segurança , Gender not reported ) , Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Nepal , Empresas de Segurança , Gender not reported )Temas
Espancamento e Violência , Intimidação e Ameaças , Privação da liberdade de expressão , Roubo de salários , PrisãoResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Migrant-Rights.org
Medidas tomadas: On the same day that payment failed, the workers staged a protest march. Some workers alleged being intimidated and assaulted by the owner's son after returning to their accommodation. The police arrested nine workers due to the incident, who were later released without charge. The workers said their cases have been referred to the labour court and their embassies were aware, although they hadn't had much response.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
Resumo
Data informada: 13 Out 2019
Localização: Barein
Empresas
Zone Security - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 200
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Bangladesh , Empresas de Segurança , Gender not reported ) , Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Nepal , Empresas de Segurança , Gender not reported )Temas
Privação da liberdade de expressão , Roubo de salários , Prisão , Intimidação e Ameaças , Espancamento e ViolênciaResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por NGO
Medidas tomadas: On the same day that payment failed, the workers staged a protest march. Some workers alleged being intimidated and assaulted by the owner's son after returning to their accomodation. The police arrested nine workers due to the incident, who were later released without charge. The workers said their cases have been referred to the labour court and their embassies were aware, although they hadn't had much response.
Tipo de fonte: NGO
"Non-payment of wages: An issue on the rise for low-income migrant workers in Bahrain," 13 Oct 2019
This report reviews the issue of non-payment of wages that migrant workers in Bahrain increasingly face, and assesses the Bahraini government’s response...
The economic downturn, caused mainly by low oil prices, hit Bahrain’s construction sector hard and exacerbated the already rampant practice of non-payment of wages. Costs and losses are passed on to the most vulnerable – the migrant workers at the end of the supply chain...
Over the past several months, workers from different sectors have staged protests across Bahrain over unpaid-wages and poor working conditions, though only a few of them have received media attention.
[We were unable to find contact information for Ramses Trading Co., one of the named companies, to invite them to respond to the article.]