High hopes turn into nightmare
摘要
日期: 2023年7月8日
地点: 马来西亚
其他
Not Reported ( 职业介绍所 ) - Recruiter , Not Reported ( 建筑 ) - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 数字未知
外劳和移民工人: ( 41 - 孟加拉国 , 建筑 , Gender not reported )议题
招聘费 , 食物权 , Withholding Passports , 恐吓和威胁 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage Theft , Occupational Health & Safety , 受伤 , Failing to renew visas , Debt Bondage , 信息获取 , Restricted mobility , Contract Substitution , 隐私回应
Response sought: 否
后续行动: Although they asked for help at the Commission and from police the workers were not helped and the police forced the workers to pay a bribe as they didn't have original documents. Some workers were moved after intervention from the albour department
信息来源: News outlet
Ahmed (not his real name) and 40 other Bangladeshi workers boarded a flight to Kuala Lumpur from Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 28...
Ahmed and his friends sold whatever little gold they had and their farm animals, borrowed from friends and family with an arrangement to give up their crops’ harvest as interest throughout the duration of the debt, and took out loans from Islami Bank and NGO banks like BRAC with interest rates as high as 10% to 14% to make payments to the employment agency in Dhaka.
They paid a Dhaka-based agency anywhere between 4.8 and 6 lakh taka (RM20,630 to RM25,787) as recruitment fees, an additional 7,000 to 12,000 taka (RM300.85-RM515.75) for medical checkups and 4,000 taka (RM171.91) for biometrics…
For example, Ahmed was not informed about the nature of his job or which sector he would be employed in until two days before departure, when he was told he would be working for a construction company…
The woman called out their names from a list and seized their passports...
They arrived at the hotel at 4am the next day and didn’t receive any food until later that day…