No pay for 5 months, passports withheld: Indians stranded in Kuwait plead for help
摘要
日期: 2020年8月10日
地点: 科威特
企业
Al Raqeeb Buildings General Contracting Co. - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 88
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 孟加拉国 , 建筑 , Gender not reported ) , 外劳和移民工人: ( 37 - 印度 , 建筑 , Gender not reported ) , 外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 尼珀尔 , 建筑 , Gender not reported )议题
恐吓和威胁 , 食物权 , Contract Substitution , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , Wage Theft , 剥夺迁徙自由回应
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后续行动: They state that they tried to engage with the company several times, finally protesting outside the Kuwaiti Ministry of Manpower. The workers also allege that occasions the company disconnected electricity and water, with police reconnecting the electricity. They are dependent on charitable food aid and have reportedly received verbal threats from their employer. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Al-Raqeeb to respond to the allegations in the article; they did not respond.
信息来源: News outlet
Eighty-eight migrant workers, including 37 Indian nationals, employed by Al-Raqeeb Buildings General Contracting Company, a labour supply firm in Kuwait, have not been paid since March this year. Their employer cut off their water supply in April, stopped their ration and threatened to “kick them around like a football”. The company is even refusing to give back these workers their passports.
the men slept hungry, with twelve crammed in one room...
In April, the company cut the water supply to their dormitories...
In early June, after three months of wage arrears and no stipend to buy provisions, the 88 men stopped working in protest...
the workers learnt that Al-Raqeeb company cut the electricity supply to their dormitories...
the cops had it restored.
Since then, the employer has not contacted the workers.
“The company has not taken any measures to protect us from COVID-19; not even masks. We are now receiving food and other ration from social workers,” said [another worker].