"Former GPZ employee Muhammad Elias dies a year after leaving Bahrain empty-handed," 25 May 2022

Muhammad died while waiting for his overdue salary and end-of-service benefits, which totalled BD8000 (US$21,300) and would have covered his life-saving operation cost three times over...

After GPZ’s bankruptcy, funds collected from creditors were used to settle dues for some of its 2000+ employees…

The total due to these workers, who were employed by the company from three to 38 years, amounts to approximately BD197,000 (USD652,000)… Individually, they are owed between BD3,500 to BD40,560 (US$7,089 to US$108,157) each in unpaid wages and end-of-service benefits.

… The Ministry reassured [workers] that consultations with the company and its debtors were ongoing, and that the money owed to them would be with them soon. With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the company representative and the ministry asked the workers to return to their home countries and promised that their dues would be transferred to their bank accounts later. But the Ministry and the company did not keep their promise...

At the time of writing, the remaining 17 GPZ workers are still awaiting their dues a year after their departure from Bahrain, and more than three years since the company stopped paying their wages.