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Complaints of victimised employees probed by Ananda Kannangara The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) on Thursday called for an immediate report from the Sri Lankan Embassy in Kuwait on the current position of 70 Sri Lankan female workers, who staged a picketing campaign opposite the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour at Behbehani Complex, Kuwait over non- payment of monthly salaries regularly by their employer. Quoting a report, published by the Arab Times on April 25, 2005, SLBFE, Country Co-ordinator S.A. Zain told the Sunday Observer that the complaints made by the employees at the Lankan Embassy in Kuwait with regard to their picketing campaign will be thoroughly investigated. It is reported that the workers had complained to the Lankan Embassy officials that the management of the Golden Shah Company, where they worked as cleaners had not paid their salaries regularly. The situation had further deteriorated. The Bureau Country Co-ordinator also assured that none of these workers had obtained the official registration granted by the Bureau along with a work permit prior to leaving for Kuwait. "However after a careful study of the report that is expected shortly from our Ambassador in Kuwait Yousuf Ahmed Ezzedin, the bureau would assist these female workers either to return to Sri Lanka or to obtain work permits which would be useful for them to find employment in other places," he said. It has also revealed that the group had travelled to Kuwait, through a private employment agency in Sri Lanka eight months ago on tourist visas, promising that they would be provided with work permits after few months in employment. During this period they were working at schools and at the airport as cleaners. Meanwhile the Arab Times reported that the company had paid only KD 25 to
each victimised worker a month, though they had been earlier promised a
monthly salary of KD 40. |
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