Without work and salary, Nepali migrant workers protest in Covid-hit UAE
Resumo
Data informada: 18 Mai 2020
Localização: Emirados Árabes Unidos
Empresas
Altrad - Employer , AMB Hertel - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 500
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 500 - Nepal , Petróleo, gás e carvão , Gender not reported )Temas
Taxas de Recrutamento , Roubo de saláriosResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Resource Centre
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Medidas tomadas: Company did not respond. The workers took strike action at the company premises and prevent other workers going to work. They state that they should either be paid their due wages for the time they have been kept off work or be repatriated by the Nepal government.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Hundreds of Nepali migrant workers have gone on strike in the United Arab Emirates as their employers have not paid them salaries for the last two months.
Nearly 500 workers, employed at an oil and gas company in Ruwais of Abu Dhabi, have stopped going to work, protesting against their employer for not giving them work and not clearing their dues...
According to the agitated workers, most of them have been confined to their apartment for the last two months without work while the company has not paid them anything for the period.