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Over 200 Nepali workers were stranded in the UAE after their employer, Abu Dhabi-based company Advance Facility Management Service, failed to pay their salary for six months, and renewed neither their contract nor their visa.
Empresas
Advanced Facilities Management Co.
- Employer
Afectado
Total de personas afectadas:
220
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: (
220
- Nepal
, Limpieza y mantenimiento
, Género no especificado
)
Temas
Incumplimiento con la renovación de visas
,
Retención de pasaportes
,
Robo de salarios
Medidas adoptadas: 69 workers signed a petition to the Nepal Embassy in UAE asking for help. After their allegations of abuses were publicized by Nepali media, the embassy expedited its response, liaising with the employer to have the workers’ passports returned and begin repatriation. Around 120 workers have returned to Nepal, with around 100 people still waiting at the time of reporting.
[120] workers have been brought to Kathmandu with help from the Nepali embassy in the UAE after officials talked to the worker’s employers to get their passports. The workers had been working for an Abu Dabhi-based company Advance Facility Management Service, without pay.
Around 100 people are still waiting to be sent back home...
The workers had faced problems after their employer didn’t renew their contract, visas and stopped paying them for the past six months...
Around 69 workers had signed a written petition asking the embassy to help them [in July]. The embassy only started to speed up things after news of their ill-treatment started to appear in the Nepali media.