Qatar: Hamad Medical Corp. responds to Migrant-Rights.org report that 400 medical & other staff at vaccination centre face delayed wages of two months; PHCC did not respond
摘要
日期: 2022年3月9日
地点: 卡塔尔
企业
Hamad Medical Corporation - Employer , Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) - Partner受影响的
受影响的总人数: 400
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 印度 , 医疗保健 , Gender not reported ) , 外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 菲律宾 , 医疗保健 , Gender not reported )议题
Wage Theft回应
已邀请回应:是,由Migrant-Rights.org
回应的外部链接: (查看更多)
后续行动: Migrant-Rights.org sought response from both Hamad Medical Corporation and Primary Health Care Corporation to the allegation; HMC provided a response which can be read in full. PHCC did not respond.
信息来源: NGO
"Qatar vaccination centre temporary staff not paid," 9 Mar 2022
Close to 400 nursing technicians, physicians assistants and other staff at the Qatar Vaccination Centre for Business and Industry Sector have not been paid for two months. The staff are employed on temporary contracts at the Bu Garn vaccination centre... [which] replaces the previous one that was operating from the Industrial area from June to October 2021.
... those categorised as nursing technicians are medical practitioners who have nursing or medical degrees, and that many of them were employed at the previous centre as well. According to some of them, salaries due in the last two months of their earlier contract are only now being settled. The nursing technicians are primarily from India and the Philippines, and draw between QR8000 and QR9000 (USD$2,100-2470) a month, and work 12-hour shifts, five days a week. The staff are not entitled to overtime pay and end-of-service benefits...
The contracts reviewed by MR were under the Hamad Medical Corporation... Migrant-Rights.org has written to the Hamad Medical Corporation and the Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) that is responsible for the centre and awaits their response...
“Hamad Medical Corporation confirms that all temporary staff employed at the Qatar Vaccination Center for Business and Industry Sector – which opened on 9 January 2022 – have received their salaries in accordance with the agreed contractual terms.
Therefore, all temporary employees received their January salaries in mid-February, and the February salaries will be paid by Sunday 13 March.
HMC operates in full accordance with Qatar’s labor laws..."