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. 13

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