Abolish Absconding Charges
요약
보고된 날짜: 2020년 11월 20일
위치: 카타르
기타
Not Reported ( 운송: 일반 ) - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 1
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - 스리랑카 , 운송: 일반 , Gender not reported )토픽들
위협 , 이동 제한 , 여권 압류 , 임금 착취 , 이동의 자유결과
Response sought: 아니오
시행된 조치: He was referred to a court where he had to clear the absconding charge against him before applying for a sponsorship transfer. He did not have proper interpretation and two days before he was due to appear he developed appendicitis and had emergency surgery. The hospital reported him to the authorities, he was detained and deported.
출처: NGO
Gulf states encourage employers to file 'absconding' charges against workers who fail to show up to work. Workers who are reported as absconding are vulnerable to detention, deportation, and loss of any claims to owed wages or other grievances. Employers often misuse this power to threaten or punish workers who complain and they generally face no consequences for false reporting. Workers, in turn, have almost no opportunity to contest these charges: whether workers left employment due to abuse or wage theft, or did not leave at all, workers have almost no opportunity to contest these charges.
Gulf states must end the criminalisation of absconding and establish more permissive procedures for workers to leave their employment.