120 Nepali workers rescued from UAE
摘要
日期: 2019年9月20日
地點: 阿聯酋
企業
Advanced Facilities Management Co. - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 220
移民和移民工人: ( 220 - 尼泊爾 , 清潔與保養 , Gender not reported )議題
Failing to renew visas , Withholding Passports , Wage Theft回應
已邀請回應：是，由Resource Centre
載有回應的故事： (查看更多)
後續行動: 69 workers signed a petition to the Nepal Embassy in UAE asking for help. After their allegations of abuses were publicized by Nepali media, the embassy expedited its response, liaising with the employer to have the workers’ passports returned and begin repatriation. Around 120 workers have returned to Nepal, with around 100 people still waiting at the time of reporting.
資訊來源: News outlet
[120] workers have been brought to Kathmandu with help from the Nepali embassy in the UAE after officials talked to the worker’s employers to get their passports. The workers had been working for an Abu Dabhi-based company Advance Facility Management Service, without pay.
Around 100 people are still waiting to be sent back home...
The workers had faced problems after their employer didn’t renew their contract, visas and stopped paying them for the past six months...
Around 69 workers had signed a written petition asking the embassy to help them [in July]. The embassy only started to speed up things after news of their ill-treatment started to appear in the Nepali media.