450 workers stranded in Bahrain as construction companies default on wages
摘要
日期: 2018年6月15日
地點: 巴林
企業
Al Qawareer Contracting Co. - Unknown , Faisal Fardan Electrical Construction - Unknown , International Trading Co. - Unknown , Orlando Construction Co. - Unknown其他
Government ( 行業未知/不適用 ) - Unknown受影響的
受影響的總人數: 450
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 孟加拉 , 建築 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 印度 , 建築 , Gender not reported )議題
食物權 , Failing to renew visas , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , 剝奪言論自由 , Wage Theft , 剝奪遷徙自由回應
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後續行動: The workers held a protest march lasting several hours from their labour camp in Tubli to the Labour Court of Bahrain; they were stopped by police in Manama and returned to their labour camp.
資訊來源: NGO
Around 450 workers from multiple construction companies in Bahrain have been denied their wages for over four months. All of the construction companies are owned by the same parent company which is managed and owned by an Indian national, and a Bahraini partner... Many of the 350 workers have been working for the companies for more than eight years. One worker told Migrant-Rights.org, “last year some workers had issues with the management due to unpaid salaries, not providing a ticket home, not giving passport or renewing the visa, but this year the company just stopped paying us all together”... More than 100 workers who reside in the company’s labour camp have either resigned because of unpaid wages or have been fired by the company, and many of them now live in Bahrain with irregular status because the company failed to renew their visas... Lack of food provision and safe and proper accommodation only adds more misery to their plight. In some cases, up to 12 people live in a single, overcrowded room... There is no running water in the showers or kitchen and the workers use water buckets to clean themselves... Above all, the safety standards in the camp are hazardous to workers’ health: there are no safety valves on the gas cylinders used for cooking, the fire extinguishers are obsolete, and many air-conditioners are in poor condition.