Bahrain: Repatriated Indian worker alleges labour abuse including long hours, harassment and unpaid wages
Résumé
Date indiquée: 20 Jan 2020
Lieu: Bahreïn
Autre
Not Reported ( Restauration et services alimentaires ) - EmployerConcerné
Nombre total de personnes concernées: 1
Travailleurs migrants et immigrés: ( 1 - Inde , Restauration et services alimentaires , Gender not reported )Enjeux
Travail forcé et esclavage moderne , Frais de recrutement , Contract Substitution , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , Wage Theft , Déni de liberté de mouvementRéponse
Response sought: Non
Mesures prises: The worker was able to get in touch with social workers who negotiated for the release of his passport and his repatriation.
Type de source: News outlet
"Social workers help expatriate 'tortured by employer' fly home," 20 Jan 2020
Social workers successfully rescued an [Indian] worker, who was allegedly held captive and subjected to forced labour by his employer... he was recruited by an agent to work with a private firm...
"Upon arrival in the Kingdom, I was offered a different job as a worker in a restaurant... The employer began harassing me from the first day of work" [he said]...
The situation became worse as the employer refused to pay him wages...
the employer was initially reluctant to release [the worker's] passport.