As the economy suffers, even profitable UAE companies leave employees in the lurch
摘要
日期: 2020年6月5日
地點: 阿聯酋
企業
Sobha Engineering & Contracting LLC - Employer , Emaar - Client , Kempinski Hotels - Client , Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai - Client , Sobha Group - Employer , Al Wasl - Client受影響的
受影響的總人數: 500
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 印度 , 建築 , Gender not reported )議題
恐嚇和威脅 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Failing to renew visas , Wage Theft回應
已邀請回應：是，由Resource Centre; NGO (SECL & Sobha)
載有回應的故事： (查看更多)
後續行動: The chairman of SECL stated to Migrant Rights that the issue was primarily on of "business" and denied that any workers were "severely affected". He did acknowledge that staff salaries are pending. He also stated that emergency requests were being met, despite evidence from Migrant Rights demonstrating that workers' repeated emails went unanswered and no workers confirmed this. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Sobha Group and SECL to respond to the allegations listed above; they did not respond. The Resource Centre contacted Kempinski, Al Wasl, Emaar and Rochester Institute of Technology to invite them to respond to SECL chairman's comments that “clients have stopped paying, even though they had received the completed property and started using it.” Kempinski responded that they did not have any contractual arrangement with SECL. No other companies responded. RIT-Dubai did share a letter from SECL to the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority which confirmed DSOA had paid SECL and that no workers on the RIT-Dubai project were unpaid.
資訊來源: NGO
SECL has stopped paying [hundreds of workers'] salaries even as projects were completed or underway. The company began delaying salaries from June 2018, paying only once every four to five months...
"Employees, both those who have left and those who continue to work, are afraid to speak up, let alone file a complaint with MOHRE as they fear losing their hard-earned money"...
Emails from staff to the company from as early as January 2019 register complaints of non-payments...
staff are owed an average of five months unpaid wages and the workers two months, in addition to any end of service benefits... Many of their visas have also expired