Migrant workers to the Gulf laid off, stranded on unpaid leave & facing wage delays
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 16 May 2020
Ubicación: Emiratos Árabes Unidos
Otro
Not Reported ( Hoteles ) - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 1
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 1 - India , Hoteles , Gender not reported )Temas
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage TheftRespuesta
Response sought: No
Medidas adoptadas: None reported.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 16 May 2020
Ubicación: Emiratos Árabes Unidos
Otro
Not Reported ( Turismo ) - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: Número desconocido
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 10 - India , Turismo , Gender not reported )Temas
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage TheftRespuesta
Response sought: No
Medidas adoptadas: One of the workers had contacted the Indian embassy to get a booking onto one of the repatriation flights India has organised to return workers home, but did not hear back despite informing them that he had neither a job nor money.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
"Coronavirus leaves Gulf migrant workers stranded," 16 May 2020
[One migrant worker was] laid off by the [Dubai] hotel where he worked.
[which] cut down its operation after the coronavirus pandemic... It did not even pay Mr Kumar for the last month that he worked...
[Another worker] shares a room with nine other Indian workers. All of them used to work for a travel firm [in the UAE], but they were laid off in February... [he] is owed two months' salary.
"I was hoping get a booking on one of the flights that flew to India last week, but I didn't get a call back from the Indian consulate. I wrote to them that I have no job and no money," he said.