12/01/2021
Unresolved Labour Cases Pileup at Indian Embassies - TheLeaflet
COVID-19 has exposed the cracks of our grievance redressal mechanisms,
according to migrant rights activists. Scores of labour disputes of Indian migrants
remain unresolved causing a lot of pain and uncertainty about their future.
Hundreds of cases have piled up in the Indian Embassies in the Gulf region where a
huge migrant population from India work. REJIMON KUTTAPPAN, a migrant rights
researcher who has reported and worked on the plight of migrants from India and
other nationalities in the Arab Gulf and is presently completing a book on the
subject, reports from Thiruvananthapuram.
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undreds of Indian migrant workers labour cases remain unresolved at Indian
embassies in Saudi Arabia and Oman in 2020 according to data from RTI
queries.
led by Indian migrant workers between Jan and December 2020.
Out of the 2,376 cases led, the embassy could resolve only 645 cases.
In 2019, the Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia had managed to resolve 98 percent of
the Indian migrant workers’ cases.
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The Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia could resolve only 27 percent of labour cases
Talking to The Lea et, Abdul Lateefh, an
Indian social worker in Riyadh for the last
three decades, said: “COVID-19 restrictions
might have been a problem for the Indian
embassies in resolving cases. But, the
Indian government should have understood
the looming crisis and acted on time by
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