Bahrain: Repatriated Indian worker alleges labour abuse including long hours, harassment and unpaid wages
Resumo
Data informada: 20 Jan 2020
Localização: Barein
Outros
Not Reported ( Serviços de Buffet e Alimentação ) - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 1
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Índia , Serviços de Buffet e Alimentação , Gender not reported )Temas
Trabalho Forçado e trabalho análogo à escravidão , Taxas de Recrutamento , Contract Substitution , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , Wage Theft , Privação da liberdade de ir e virResposta
Response sought: Não
Medidas tomadas: The worker was able to get in touch with social workers who negotiated for the release of his passport and his repatriation.
Tipo de fonte: 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.