Pakistan-based agency loses licence over illegal UAE hiring
摘要
日期: 2019年5月30日
地點: 阿聯酋
其他
Not Reported ( 職業介紹所 ) - Recruiter受影響的
受影響的總人數: 25
移民和移民工人: ( 25 - 巴基斯坦 , 安保公司 , Gender not reported )議題
食物權 , 招聘費用 , Failing to renew visas , Contract Substitution , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Withholding Passports , Debt Bondage , 恐嚇和威脅 , Personal Health , Wage Theft回應
Response sought: 否
後續行動: The Pakistan government since cancelled the operational license of a Pehawar-based overseas recruitment agent and has committed to blacklisting fraudulent recruiters and agents operating in Pakistan. On being made aware of the 25 workers' situation, the Pakistan consulate in UAE has intervened to contact agents to return workers' passports, and paid for their airfares home.
資訊來源: News outlet
The operational licence of a Peshawar-based overseas recruitment agent was cancelled in Pakistan after reports surfaced of illegal hiring of security guards in Dubai... the company had failed to provide security guards with the promised jobs, housing and salaries... the young men had been asked to pay Rs400,000 (approximately Dh9,600) in advance to cover the visa costs and airfares...
When the visa [of Pakistani migrant worker Shah Faisal] finally came through, names were changed and instead of a company sponsoring him, it was an individual... there was no one to receive him at the airport nor was there any job waiting for him... there were many others like him who were duped... they had nothing to eat, lived in flats without water and power, and on other nights, slept in the parks... He recently found out that his visa had been cancelled on April 28 without his knowledge...
The fake visa and recruitment scam network has deep roots in Pakistan. "These young men have reported agents in Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi.there are definitely more, and we need a major crackdown and action from authorities in Pakistan," [added Ahmed Amjad Ali, Pakistan's Consul-General to Dubai].