Bahrain: Repatriated Indian worker alleges labour abuse including long hours, harassment and unpaid wages
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 20 Jan 2020
Standort: Bahrain
Andere
Not Reported ( Catering & Verpflegung ) - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: 1
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( 1 - Indien , Catering & Verpflegung , Gender not reported )Themen
Zwangsarbeit & moderne Sklaverei , Personalbeschaffungsgebühren , Contract Substitution , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , Wage Theft , Verweigerung der FreizügigkeitAntwort
Response sought: Nein
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: The worker was able to get in touch with social workers who negotiated for the release of his passport and his repatriation.
Art der Quelle: News outlet
"Social workers help expatriate 'tortured by employer' fly home," 20 Jan 2020
Social workers successfully rescued an [Indian] worker, who was allegedly held captive and subjected to forced labour by his employer... he was recruited by an agent to work with a private firm...
"Upon arrival in the Kingdom, I was offered a different job as a worker in a restaurant... The employer began harassing me from the first day of work" [he said]...
The situation became worse as the employer refused to pay him wages...
the employer was initially reluctant to release [the worker's] passport.