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Article

15 Apr 2019

Author:
Anjana Sankar, Khaleej Times

Worker's marriage plan goes bust due to labour dispute in UAE

[Indian migrant worker Jadeesh P. Shaji] has been working with Al Wasita for more than five years and the company owes him Dh11,000... his marriage date had to be cancelled twice because he is stranded in the UAE and cannot fly home due to a labour dispute... "I could not make it as the case was ongoing and my visa was cancelled." ...400 employees of Al Wasita Emirates Catering Services [are] awaiting the outcome of a legal settlement they have reached with the company... [unpaid workers] were surviving on discarded food after their company reportedly became non-functional. The men... are put up at a two-storey accommodation in Musssafah with limited and intermittent supply of food... electricity and water. In January, around 400 workers received 50 per cent of their salary... after the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) deployed a mobile court to the workers' accommodation... [many] are still awaiting payments and repatriation... [The company said] "there is no information on why the delay in settling the payments". "We are also waiting for the right answers."