Crying Out for Justice: Wage Theft Against Migrant Workers during COVID-19 (Vol.2)
During the pandemic, migrant workers were recognised as being disproportionately affected despite being acknowledged as ‘essential workers’ in countries of destination that previously treated them as dispensable population within the workforce. Civil society, community and faith-based organisations and trade unions that were deeply involved with the migrant worker community in countries of origin and destination found themselves overwhelmed with request for service provision as well as grievances related to job losses and wage theft. Such a situation has now been recognised by civil society organisations as the failure of private and public actors in mitigating the migrant worker crises and facilitating access to justice at a crucial time when migrant workers were leaving (or forced to) or staying on as frontline workers and essential service-people.