Bangladesh: Female domestic workers who returned home during COVID-19 are subject to wage theft, exploitation & lack access to justice
摘要
日期: 2021年4月20日
地点: 沙特阿拉伯
其他
Not Reported ( 家佣中介公司 ) - Recruiter受影响的
受影响的总人数: 1
外劳和移民工人: ( 1 - 孟加拉国 , 家佣中介公司 , Gender not reported )议题
殴打和暴力 , 招聘费 , Failing to renew visas , Wage Theft回应
Response sought: 否
后续行动: The Bangladeshi embassy in Saudi Arabia helped to repatriate her.
信息来源: NGO
"Women migrants' wages are also stolen," 19 April 2021
[Bangladeshi domestic worker] Riya claims that her [Saudi Arabian] employer hasn’t paid her 10 months’ salary, which is around USD2700...
In addition to the denial of wages, she was subjected to exploitative working conditions...
Riya had migrated to Saudi Arabia in 2016 through an agency after spending USD700 as a recruitment fee...
According to BOMSA general secretary Sheikh Rumana, 36 women migrants have returned during the last three months and 95 in 2020 after being subjected to wage theft and exploitation.
“Analyzing the SOS calls at our office, we can say that hundreds of migrant women domestic workers are subjected to wage theft and exploitation in all the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and Lebanon,” Rumana said.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Parliamentarians’ Caucus on Migration and Development Secretary-General Mahjabeen Khaleed said that the government should take the wage theft issue seriously because it has been an important issue in this COVID-19 time.
“I understand that the Philippine government has taken some practical steps to help migrant workers to claim their unpaid wages. We should see those steps and try to implement the same for our Bangladeshi migrants too,” he said...