21 Zimbabweans stuck in Kuwait
摘要
日期: 2020年8月17日
地點: 科威特
企業
Explomo Technical Services - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 125
移民和移民工人: ( 29 - 莫三比克 , 軍隊/武器/安保設備：綜合 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 75 - 地點未知 , 軍隊/武器/安保設備：綜合 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 21 - 辛巴威 , 軍隊/武器/安保設備：綜合 , Gender not reported )議題
死亡 , 食物權 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Personal Health , Wage Theft , 剝奪遷徙自由回應
已邀請回應：是，由Resource Centre
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後續行動: The report states that the workers have appealed to both Kuwait and Zimbabwean embassies but had not yet received help. In June they staged a demonstration after they had been unable to contact the authorities "due to the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions". The Kuwait Ministry of Labour has reportedly ordered the Kuwaiti project sponsor (Sudan Regional Trading & Contracting Co.) to pay the salaries; despite agreeing to do so, the sponsor had not. The workers continue to survive on handouts and have stated they are afraid, with no one to safeguard their health.
資訊來源: News outlet
"21 Zimbabweans stuck in Kuwait," 17 Aug 2020
A group of Zimbabweans employed by [Explomo Technical Services] to work in Kuwait has been left stranded after the company dumped them without paying them their salaries.
The workers were employed in 2018 by Explomo Technical Services as de-mining experts but were later abandoned by their employer at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic...
“When we came here in 2018, we received our salaries as usual and the working conditions were average but since the beginning of the COVID-19 (pandemic), the chief finance officer and other senior managers left for Singapore...
“We have not been paid our December 2019 salaries and to make matters worse, our company abandoned us at a camp in Kuwait in March. The management left for Singapore and never came back,” [said a Zimbabwean worker]...
The deserted employees include 21 Zimbabweans, 29 Mozambicans, and 75 other nationals.