Documentation Status
DOCUMENTATION STATUS
5
39
16
184
Documented
116
Undocumented
57
77
99
436
84
Undocumented
Documented
Nepal
39
India
184
Philippines
5
Bangladesh
16
Indonesia
116
77
436
57
99
84
Out of 1,113 cases between January – May 2021, a total of 753 cases of wage theft were experienced
by documented workers and 359 cases by undocumented workers (32.2%).
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%).
The above data followed similar trends as 2020 and was indicative of the forms of wage theft that were
experienced by documented workers despite being assumed as having better access to facilities and
grievance redressal than undocumented workers.
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.
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