21 Zimbabweans stuck in Kuwait
"21 Zimbabweans stuck in Kuwait," 17 Aug 2020
A group of Zimbabweans employed by [Explomo Technical Services] to work in Kuwait has been left stranded after the company dumped them without paying them their salaries.
The workers were employed in 2018 by Explomo Technical Services as de-mining experts but were later abandoned by their employer at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic...
“When we came here in 2018, we received our salaries as usual and the working conditions were average but since the beginning of the COVID-19 (pandemic), the chief finance officer and other senior managers left for Singapore...
“We have not been paid our December 2019 salaries and to make matters worse, our company abandoned us at a camp in Kuwait in March. The management left for Singapore and never came back,” [said a Zimbabwean worker]...
The deserted employees include 21 Zimbabweans, 29 Mozambicans, and 75 other nationals.