Unpaid Indian women workers sent home from Saudi Arabia


Riyadh, April 13 (IANS): The Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia has finally repatriated a group of Indian women workers who were not paid their salaries for the past nine months by their employer.

The Indian embassy in Riyadh arranged the flight tickets for ten workers, who were on contractual jobs for a cleaning company here, from the Indian Community Welfare Fund (ICWF) and mediated with the contracting company to safeguard their final exits, Arab News reported Sunday.

Meanwhile, the contracting company which had employed the cleaners for two-and-half years allowed their final exit.

Eleven Indian women from Kerala last month appealed to the Indian embassy for help after they were allegedly not paid their salaries for the past nine months.

A worker, whose travelling documents could not be processed, will be repatriated next week.

They were not going to work since March 16, demanding that they will return to work only after their dues are paid.

Earlier last month, the Indian embassy expressed its concern over the matter.

  

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  • Sir Lancelot, Manglore

    Sun, Apr 13 2014

    But our own people (greedy agents)looted them from the native place travel transit till the work destination.

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  • Rita, Germany

    Sun, Apr 13 2014

    Pity ,These women came with hopes of a better living and deceived of their salary and sent back.hope they got their pending salary at least.who knows they must have paid a lot of Money to get visa.Lately I heard a kerala bound Agent was asking 15lacs of rupees to go to Dubai for a visa .Such companies are raising in no time like mushrooms and vanish just so.They receive Money from candidates as well from job centers and no one can find later where they are.It has started now here also.money makers.

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