Kuwait: Thousands of Nepali workers left stranded without pay as employers refuse visa renewals
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 19 May 2020
Ubicación: Kuwait
Otro
Not Reported ( Sector no comunicado/aplicable ) - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 12
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 12 - Nepal - Sector desconocido , Gender not reported )Temas
Muertes , Intimidación y Amenazas , Failing to renew visas , Dismissal , Personal Health , Wage TheftRespuesta
Response sought: No
Medidas adoptadas: None reported.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
"He lost his job and wanted to come home. The lockdown killed him." 17 May 2020
Two months before the end of [one Nepali couple's] contract in July, the employer demanded an advance for renewing their visa, threatening to send them home if they failed to comply.
They refused to pay and were subsequently fired... while waiting for the lockdown in Nepal to be lifted so they could come home, [the husband] died.
[Their] employer refused to renew [12 Nepalis'] working visas... they had been out of work for two months, and the company had also cancelled their visas...
[The workers] narrated how the employer had made them sign a visa cancellation paper and had left them without jobs or pay for 50 days.