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15 Jun 2018

Autor:
Migrant-Rights.Org

450 workers stranded in Bahrain as construction companies default on wages

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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.