Millions of migrant workers reportedly unpaid & abandoned in the Gulf amid COVID-19 crisis; Transguard worker discloses experience of employment & salary suspension
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 30 Oct 2020
Ubicación: Emiratos Árabes Unidos
Empresas
Transguard - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 200
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 200 - Nepal , Empresas de seguridad , Gender not reported )Temas
Derecho a la alimentación , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , Wage Theft , Negación de la libertad de movimientoRespuesta
Respuesta buscada: Sí, por Journalist
Medidas adoptadas: In September 2020, around 200 Nepali workers protested outside Transguard's HR office. Subsequently, many Nepalis were repatriated.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
Resumen
Fecha comunicada: 30 Oct 2020
Ubicación: Arabia Saudita
Otro
Not Reported ( Empresas de seguridad ) - EmployerAfectado
Total de personas afectadas: 1
Trabajadores migrantes e inmigrantes: ( 1 - Nepal , Empresas de seguridad , Gender not reported )Temas
Golpizas y violencia , Lesiones/Heridas , Intimidación y AmenazasRespuesta
Response sought: No
Medidas adoptadas: None reported.
Tipo de fuente: News outlet
"For Persian Gulf migrant workers the pandemic has amplified systemic discrimination," 30 Oct 2020
[Transguard's] Covid-19 protection measures were minimal. “They put hand sanitizer out and gave each person just one mask that we had to keep washing and reusing for months. But they weren’t testing us.” Some of the workers were still required to report for duty, leaving Gurung terrified that they’d “bring the virus back with them”...
Although Transguard continued to offer free food, she quickly ran through her meager savings... In April, unable to wait any longer without pay and fearing for her safety, she submitted her resignation. The company denied her request... (Transguard did not respond to a request for comment.)...
millions of migrant workers [in the Arabian Gulf] found themselves abruptly deprived of income, and in many cases trapped in crowded accommodations with little access to health care or even food. Others were shunted to quarantine or detention facilities, often in unsafe conditions that had been linked to disease outbreaks even before the arrival of the coronavirus...
[One interviewed Nepali worker] worked for two years at a warehouse in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and said he routinely witnessed his coworkers accepting abusive treatment. “If we didn’t work fast enough, they would yell at us and threaten us. I saw them beating some people. If something went missing, we got charged huge fines. Once, a worker was hit by a forklift and broke his leg—and all we worried about was how they would punish us.” Fed up with this treatment, Tamang, 27, left at the end of his first two-year contract, in 2018. “Now I am so glad I left.”