UAE turns a blind eye to rampant abuse of its visit visa; employer-pays model only on paper
摘要
日期: 2021年9月20日
地点: 阿拉伯联合酋长国
企业
Reliance HR Manpower - Recruiter受影响的
受影响的总人数: 数字未知
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 地点未知 , 职业介绍所 , Gender not reported )议题
招聘费 , Restricted mobility , 剥夺迁徙自由回应
Response sought: 否
后续行动: A director of one of the companies was sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment and fined USD200.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年9月20日
地点: 阿拉伯联合酋长国
企业
Nepal Manpower - Recruiter受影响的
受影响的总人数: 数字未知
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 地点未知 , 职业介绍所 , Gender not reported )议题
招聘费 , Restricted mobility , 剥夺迁徙自由回应
Response sought: 否
后续行动: A director of one of the companies was sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment and fined USD200.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年9月20日
地点: 阿拉伯联合酋长国
其他
Not Reported ( 清洁与保养 ) - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 1
外劳和移民工人: ( 1 - 尼珀尔 , 清洁与保养 , Gender not reported )议题
恐吓和威胁 , 招聘费回应
Response sought: 否
后续行动: Not reported.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年9月20日
地点: 阿拉伯联合酋长国
企业
Group-2 Security - Unknown , Hawk Security Services - Unknown , Link Star Manpower - Unknown受影响的
受影响的总人数: 15
外劳和移民工人: ( 15 - 尼珀尔 , 安保公司 , Gender not reported )议题
恐吓和威胁 , 食物权 , 招聘费 , Failing to renew visas , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , Wage Theft , 剥夺迁徙自由回应
已邀请回应:是,由Resource Centre; Migrant-Rights.org
载有回应的故事: (查看更多)
后续行动: The counsel director of Link Star Manpower admitted that the company had sent "some" youths abroad on tourist visas. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Link Star, Hawk Security and Group-2 Security to respond to the article. Group-2 Security provided a response; Link Star and Hawk Security did not.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年9月20日
地点: 阿拉伯联合酋长国
企业
EFS Facilities Services - Unknown , Kalinchok Manpower - Unknown受影响的
受影响的总人数: 数字未知
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 尼珀尔 , 清洁与保养 , Gender not reported )议题
Wage Theft回应
已邀请回应:是,由Resource Centre
载有回应的故事: (查看更多)
后续行动: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre contacted both companies to invite them to respond to the article. Kalinchok stated that they had since changed workers salaries to match AED900 per month. EFS provided a response which did not address the key allegation.
信息来源: NGO
With Covid-19-related restrictions on formal recruitment, more and more Nepali migrant workers are going to the UAE on visit visas. Though technically legal under UAE law, Nepal’s government bans workers from travelling on visit visas for the purposes of employment. These migrants often end up paying extortionately high fees for non-existent jobs, with none of the legal protections formally recruited workers are entitled to...
the Department of Foreign Employment permitted Kalinchowk Manpower Company to recruit workers to EFS Facilities Services based on EFS’ proposal to pay a minimum of AED900. But the offer letter handed over to migrant workers (and reviewed by MR) indicates their basic monthly salary is just AED600...
Earlier this year, the Department of Foreign Employment caught two agencies – Nepal Manpower Pvt. Ltd. and Reliance HR Manpower – charging migrants exorbitant fees for visit visas to the UAE. One of the directors was sentenced to one year and six months imprisonment, and fined NPR25,000 by the Foreign Employment Tribunal...
“Link Star agents promised us jobs as security guards and said the visa type doesn’t affect us. We trusted them,” said Rajendra. Unemployed and desperate for work, Tejendra and his four friends paid NPR250,000 (USD$2,150) each to the agents...
“We later realised the visit visa doesn’t allow us to work – they (agents) cheated us.”
Harka Mani Rai, counsel director of Link Star Manpower, admitted that his company had sent ‘some’ youth for foreign employment on tourist visas...
Under immense pressure from ‘Sultan’ and Link Star, the five youths worked for a week at Hawk Security Services in Sonapur, according to Suraj. When a month later, the manager discovered they were working under fake ID cards, they were kicked out. Suraj says they also worked at Group-2 Securities in Deira for a few days, but were kicked out again when their two-month visit visa expired in May. None of them received payment for the days they worked.