06/07/2021
Wage Theft Case; UAE Leads in Numbers - Indian Flash News
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The high proportion of domestic workers among female cases in
countries (except Malaysia)§ demonstrated the continuing vulnerability
and precarity of women involved in care work. For instance, 71 out of 80
cases of females in KSA, 8 out of 12 cases in UAE and 8 out of 9 cases in
Kuwait were of domestic workers. All female cases from Jordan, Lebanon,
Hong Kong and Iraq (between 1-4 cases) as well were of domestic
workers.
DOCUMENTATION
A total of 753 cases of wage theft were experienced by documented
workers and 359 cases by undocumented workers, the report said. Out of
359 cases, 39 cases of undocumented workers were female migrant
workers, primarily located in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia. A majority of them
were from Indonesia, followed by Bangladesh. Among countries of origin,
while Philippines has the highest proportion of documented workers,
Indonesia was observed as having the largest proportion of cases related
to undocumented workers (58%), followed by Nepal (33.6%).
For documented workers, the major countries of destination where wage
theft cases were reported to the platform included UAE (accounting for
44.8% of total cases of documented workers), KSA (30%), and Malaysia (10%).
This was followed by (in the order of number of cases) Qatar, Bahrain,
Oman, Kuwait, China and Singapore. All cases from Jordan were
documented workers. Other countries of documented workers included
Hong Kong, Japan, Libya, Maldives, Poland, South Korea, Sri Lanka and
Vietnam.
Among countries of destination, the highest number of cases registered on
behalf of undocumented workers were from Kuwait, accounting for 61% of
the total cases filed between January – May 2021. This was followed by
China, KSA (both 9%), Bahrain (8%), UAE (7%), and Malaysia (6%)
A majority of the undocumented cases of wage theft in Kuwait were Indian
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males in the construction industry. The cases registered in Philippines were
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