DOCUMENTATION STATUS PER INDUSTRY 3 21 188 24 78 29 27 94 468 21 67 9 Construction Manufacturing Hospitality Domestic Documented Retail Fishing Undocumented > We observed that the fishing sector has the highest proportion of undocumented workers (more than 70%), followed by manufacturing (53.7%) and retail (51%) for the period of January-May 2021. This differed from 2020 where manufacturing had the least cases of undocumented workers. > The precarity of the fishing and construction industries have been highlighted since 2020 where a consistent proportion of workers were undocumented. > Other sectors where cases of undocumented workers facing wage theft have been reported were agriculture (2), Mining (2), Office staff (2), Sanitation (4) and Transportation (4). > When observing cases of undocumented workers in each industry per COD, we found that: o Kuwait formed the majority of undocumented cases among workers in construction sector (165 out of 188) o Undocumented workers in manufacturing were primarily located in the Philippines (59 out of 78) and Malaysia (17) o KSA accounted for 14 out of 21 cases of wage theft among undocumented domestic workers. This trend was also seen in 2020 where KSA accounted for majority of undocumented domestic worker cases of wage theft. o China accounted for 24 out of 29 wage theft cases among workers in the fishing sector. As in 2020, South Korea was also a COD that reported wage theft in the fishing industry – this change may be explained by group cases uploaded in the period of January – May 2021. 18