UAE: Ajman employee faces multiple labour abuses including excessive working hours & withheld passport
Summary
Date Reported: 2 May 2020
Location: United Arab Emirates
Other
Not Reported ( Sector not reported/applicable ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: 1
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - Location unknown - Sector unknown , Gender not reported )Issues
Contract Substitution , Withholding Passports , Wage TheftResponse
Response sought: No
Action taken: None reported.
Source type: News outlet
"My employer is not honouring my salary and now wants to slash it by half," 2 May 2020
When I joined my company, I signed an offer letter but later on I noticed the employment contract was different... On the labour contract, my basic salary is Dh600 but on the offer letter it was Dh1,400 per month... [my employer] does not want to pay me and even wants to reduce my salary by 50 per cent. I want to quit my job but she is stopping me as she has my passport...
No employee should be treated in this manner and the employer is not acting fairly...
I urge IO to register a case with MoHRE against the company for: the salary cuts, the excessive hours, the passport retention and potentially arbitrary dismissal.