Bahrain: Repatriated Indian worker alleges labour abuse including long hours, harassment and unpaid wages
摘要
日期: 2020年1月20日
地点: 巴林
其他
Not Reported ( 饮食服务 ) - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 1
外劳和移民工人: ( 1 - 印度 , 饮食服务 , Gender not reported )议题
强迫劳动与当代奴隶制 , 招聘费 , Contract Substitution , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , Wage Theft , 剥夺迁徙自由回应
Response sought: 否
后续行动: The worker was able to get in touch with social workers who negotiated for the release of his passport and his repatriation.
信息来源: News outlet
"Social workers help expatriate 'tortured by employer' fly home," 20 Jan 2020
Social workers successfully rescued an [Indian] worker, who was allegedly held captive and subjected to forced labour by his employer... he was recruited by an agent to work with a private firm...
"Upon arrival in the Kingdom, I was offered a different job as a worker in a restaurant... The employer began harassing me from the first day of work" [he said]...
The situation became worse as the employer refused to pay him wages...
the employer was initially reluctant to release [the worker's] passport.