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2021年2月4日

作者:
Impact International

UAE: 300 Commodore workers await unpaid wages three years after co. liquidated, despite court rulings in their favour

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" 'Nobody is taking responsibility': Former UAE Commodore workers fight for denied compensation after company liquidation," 1 Feb 2021

5,000 labourers were housed in a camp built for the purpose, along with another 600 professional employees—including engineers, human resource practitioners and electricians—who lived either in the community or just outside. A court ruling forced management to pay off camp residents at the end of 2018...

300 professional workers who had been living outside the camp continued to wait. When even court rulings in their favor were not honored, they took their grievances to the Ministry of Labour...

ImpACT International obtained a list of 129 Indian employees who went to court and were promised settlements. Of those, only 14 have received the full amount pledged. At the other extreme, 47 have not been paid anything at all. The remainder received partial payments; although the court awarded amounts as high as 392,000 AED to the workers, no one received more than 49,000 from the company...

Another employee commented to ImpACT: “The Commodore group was very big, but they claim they don’t have money to pay us. They say they liquidated with zero fixed assets except for a few vehicles and materials. How is that possible?”