120 Nepali workers rescued from UAE
Summary
Date Reported: 20 Sep 2019
Location: United Arab Emirates
Companies
Advanced Facilities Management Co. - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: 220
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 220 - Nepal , Cleaning & maintenance , Gender not reported )Issues
Failing to renew visas , Withholding Passports , Wage TheftResponse
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Action taken: 69 workers signed a petition to the Nepal Embassy in UAE asking for help. After their allegations of abuses were publicized by Nepali media, the embassy expedited its response, liaising with the employer to have the workers’ passports returned and begin repatriation. Around 120 workers have returned to Nepal, with around 100 people still waiting at the time of reporting.
Source type: News outlet
[120] workers have been brought to Kathmandu with help from the Nepali embassy in the UAE after officials talked to the worker’s employers to get their passports. The workers had been working for an Abu Dabhi-based company Advance Facility Management Service, without pay.
Around 100 people are still waiting to be sent back home...
The workers had faced problems after their employer didn’t renew their contract, visas and stopped paying them for the past six months...
Around 69 workers had signed a written petition asking the embassy to help them [in July]. The embassy only started to speed up things after news of their ill-treatment started to appear in the Nepali media.