Saturday, December 1, 2007

22 expat workers are seeking for immediate help


22 expat workers are seeking for immediate help
One of the company …………………., 20 – 22 people were there without food and job since one month. Among 22, three of them have come before 19 months, one before 15 months and rest has come before 12 months to work in Juber Company.
Mitery volunteer Seema Gurung with the expat workers
Their job was Mason and salary 800 QR. monthly as per their agreement /contract paper signed and promised by their agent in Nepal. But when they landed in Doha airport nobody from the company came to received them. They waited for 2 days hoping to see someone from the company to pick them from airport but none of them come. They passed two days and night without food and water. Later one of the guy from the group able to call his relatives in Doha. He came to pick them up in airport on the third day of arrival. He helped them to shelter and find the company. Later after one month they were able to find the company and joined. Then they started to work, after three months passed they didn’t get any salary and Resident Permit. Only three of them have got their resident permit. The most important thing is that still they have not got their Resident Permit from the company. 3 of them who have got the Resident Permit, their R.P. date also expired before seven months. It is not renewed. They were told that the company holds the salary of 3 months of each worker as a deposit. After the fourth month of their work they got salary for the first time but less than the contract paper. The company paid them only 550 QR. instead of 800. They were working smoothly even though they get Resident Permit; get less salary, no medical facilities etc. But before few months the company has not paid them salary of 3 months. Their salary of starting 3 months is already balance in the company and now also they were not paid for three months. Altogether their balance due salary in the company is of 6 months. There is no food allowances and medical treatment from the company.

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