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3 Aug 2016

Author:
Mohammed Rasooldeen, Arab News (Saudi Arabia)

King’s order: Resolve cases of Indian workers in Saudi Oger urgently

“We have agreed with Saudi Arabian Airlines to send back any Indian worker who wants to leave,” he [Labor and Social Development Minister Mufrej Al-Haqabani] said. “We will also appoint lawyers at our expense to follow up on the workers’ financial claims in courts against their employer in order to ensure that the unpaid salaries and financial dues are fully settled”...issued orders to allow the Indian workers to immediately transfer their sponsorship and renew their residence permits...[and] that restrictions on workers leaving the Kingdom be eased.

 

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