Kuwait: 150 food & beverage workers receive USD400k in unpaid wages & compensation after employer failed to pay salaries during COVID-19 pandemic, court rules
요약
보고된 날짜: 2022년 1월 1일
위치: 쿠웨이트
기타
Not Reported ( 케이터링 & 음식 서비스 ) - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 150
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 이집트 , 케이터링 & 음식 서비스 , Gender not reported ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 중동 및 북아프리카 , 케이터링 & 음식 서비스 , Gender not reported )토픽들
임금 착취결과
Response sought: 아니오
시행된 조치: Kuwaiti court issued a ruling in favor of these employees, ordering the employer to pay them what they're owed in addition to compensation in the form of three months' worth of notification and flight tickets, amounting to around USD400K.
출처: News outlet
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"Firm ordered to pay KD120,000 in arrears to workers," 1 Jan 2021
A Kuwaiti court has ordered a food company to pay nearly KD120,000 in overdue wages to its employees...
... in favour of more than 150 workers, mostly Egyptians, after their employer had shirked paying them their wages during the COVID-19 outbreak...
The court obligated the company to pay all due wages, three more months’ worth of notification and travel tickets in a compensation package amounting to KD120,000.
The employer was also ordered to issue a certificate of experience to each labourer according to the Kuwaiti labour law related to the private sector.
Lawyer Al Arbach accused the unnamed company of dealing arbitrarily with her claimants by denying them their financial entitlements during the pandemic in violation of the labour law, saying the act had negatively affected their lives. Foreigners account for nearly 3.4 million of Kuwait’s total population of 4.6 million.
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