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3 Mar 2024

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By Pramod Acharya, Migrant-Rights.Org

Saudi Arabia: Companies opt for subcontracting over direct hires, resulting in 'acute & unchecked' exploitation of migrant workers

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“Saudi companies opt for subcontracting over direct hires, resulting in acute and unchecked exploitation”

…When recruitment agents in Kathmandu told him about a job opportunity at Saudi Aramco… he paid 150,000 rupees (US$ 1,115) to the firm…

Ten Nepali migrant workers interviewed for this story recounted to Migrant-Rights.org similar experiences...

Ranjit’s employer turned out to be National Basics Company…he now works for Al-Rashid Trading & Contracting…

…the agency, Herald International Pvt Ltd, misled him…

…Al Mutairi sent him to work as a barista at a Kyan coffee shop…

…A food delivery worker at Hunger Station in Al Qassim says he got a warning from the manpower supply company when he asked why his salary was delayed…

He has been working through Al Saeed General Contracting…

…Khadka, who worked at the Carrefour warehouse and Barn’s coffee shop through a contractor company, says workers are pressured…

A worker at Rust Burger, who works through NAS Manpower Solutions…shared a similar story…NAS Manpower says the worker’s accusation is “incorrect” and claims that the company is “very cooperative” with all their workers.

A current worker at Barn’s Coffee says his supplier also asked him for a 5,000 riyals…

[Journalists researched out to all companies named in the article; only NAS Manpower solutions provided a comment].