Bahrain: Repatriated Indian worker alleges labour abuse including long hours, harassment and unpaid wages
摘要
日期: 2020年1月20日
地點: 巴林
其他
Not Reported ( 飲食服務 ) - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 1
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 印度 , 飲食服務 , Gender not reported )議題
強迫勞動與當代奴隸制 , 招聘費用 , Contract Substitution , Restricted mobility , Withholding Passports , Personal Health , Wage Theft , 剝奪遷徙自由回應
Response sought: 否
後續行動: The worker was able to get in touch with social workers who negotiated for the release of his passport and his repatriation.
資訊來源: 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.