Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in the United Arab Emirates
November 11, 2006
Based on extensive interviews with workers, government officials and business representatives, this 71-page report documents serious abuses of construction workers by employers in the United Arab Emirates. These abuses include unpaid or extremely low wages, several years of indebtedness to recruitment agencies for fees that UAE law says only employers should pay, the withholding of employees’ passports, and hazardous working conditions that result in apparently high rates of death and injury.
# Download this report (PDF, 1.02 MB)
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/uae1106webwcover.pdf
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2006/11/11/building-towers-cheating-workers
November 11, 2006
Based on extensive interviews with workers, government officials and business representatives, this 71-page report documents serious abuses of construction workers by employers in the United Arab Emirates. These abuses include unpaid or extremely low wages, several years of indebtedness to recruitment agencies for fees that UAE law says only employers should pay, the withholding of employees’ passports, and hazardous working conditions that result in apparently high rates of death and injury.
# Download this report (PDF, 1.02 MB)
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/uae1106webwcover.pdf
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2006/11/11/building-towers-cheating-workers
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