News & Reports
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UAE
UAE turns a blind eye to rampant abuse of its visit visa; employer-pays model only on paper
With Covid-19-related restrictions on formal recruitment, more and more Nepali migrant workers are going to the UAE on visit visas. Though technically legal under UAE law, Nepal’s government bans workers from travelling on visit visas for the purposes of employment. These migrants often end up paying extortionately high fees for non-existent jobs, with none of the legal protections formally recruited workers are entitled to.
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Kuwait
Transportation Workers in Kuwait: At the wheel, thrown under the bus
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Bahrain
Protesting migrant workers in Bahrain’s O&G sector face abuse and threats
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Detention & Deportation
Over 80,000 undocumented migrants in Saudi arrested in recent raids
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Health and Safety
Migrant workers suffer most in Kuwait’s extreme heat
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Detention & Deportation
What happens when no one’s looking?
Malcolm Bidali reflects on the last 12 weeks of detention, intimidation, and being charged for a ‘crime’ of highlighting the plight of lower-income migrant workers like himself
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Recruitment
Project visas misused to bypass QVC regulations
In Brief
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Kuwait’s budget crunch, liquidity crises, and labour force nationalisation schemes have resulted in a large-scale termination of foreign workers, and a devastating impact on non-Kuwaiti government employees. According to various media reports, the Kuwaiti government is several months overdue in paying end-of-service benefits to terminated and resigned migrant workers.
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Bahrain recently launched the second phase of its “Wage Protection System”. The second phase will cover businesses with 50 to 499 employees.
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Kenyan labour rights activist, Malcolm Bidali, leaves Qatar after paying a hefty fine as a penalty for publishing “false information” under the country’s cybercrime laws. The 28 year-old is a security guard, blogger and activist, who has been vocal about the plight of migrant workers like himself, and has written for a number of online platforms.
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In Brief
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Kuwait’s budget crunch, liquidity crises, and labour force nationalisation schemes have resulted in a large-scale termination of foreign workers, and a devastating impact on non-Kuwaiti government employees. According to various media reports, the Kuwaiti government is several months overdue in paying end-of-service benefits to terminated and resigned migrant workers.
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Bahrain recently launched the second phase of its “Wage Protection System”. The second phase will cover businesses with 50 to 499 employees.
Read more -
Kenyan labour rights activist, Malcolm Bidali, leaves Qatar after paying a hefty fine as a penalty for publishing “false information” under the country’s cybercrime laws. The 28 year-old is a security guard, blogger and activist, who has been vocal about the plight of migrant workers like himself, and has written for a number of online platforms.
Read more
