Over 800 workers stranded in Dubai
摘要
日期: 2020年4月3日
地點: 阿聯酋
企業
Sea Bird Supermarket - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 800
移民和移民工人: ( 45 - 非洲 , 零售 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 300 - 印度 , 零售 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 200 - 尼泊爾 , 零售 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 200 - 巴基斯坦 , 零售 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 50 - 斯里蘭卡 , 零售 , Gender not reported )議題
食物權 , 招聘費用 , Contract Substitution , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Debt Bondage , 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: Workers complained to the police who told them it was a labour case; when they tried filing a labour complaint they were told as it was a fraud case the police would be responsible. The supermarket's owner stated that they had only recently acquired the business; they claimed responsibility lay with the previous owner. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre reached out to invite Sea Bird Supermarket to comment on the allegations; it did not reply. In May 2020, Migrant Rights reported that the supermarket has since rebranded as Bluebird but the UAE Government has yet to resolve the issue.
資訊來源: NGO
Over 800 workers, including around 60 women, employed or recruited by Sea Bird Supermarket have been left stranded for more than a month in Dubai. All of them have paid... recruitment fees ('document fees') to the employer...
a worker representative says that the ordeal seems to be a case of outright recruitment fraud...
25 of these workers are in a dire state and require immediate help, as they have no food or accommodation... the police said this was a labour case. When they tried filing a labour complaint, they were told this was a fraud case and only the police would be able to deal with them.