The migrant workers--Shrawan Chaudhary of Udaypur, Hangku Majhi of Sindhuli, Omiram Hagu, Gyanulal Das and Badelal Sah of Saptari and Lalmohan Kunwar of Nawalparasi district--have been denied their salaries by their employer, Al Harodar Group.
The migrant workers had reached Qatar 22 months ago through their relatives. Each of them had paid Rs 95,000 to the agent who had arranged their employment with Al Harodar Group.As per the agreement, the company has to pay 1,300 Riyal, or Rs 40,000, per month to each worker.
Although the company had been regularly providing the salary to them in the past, it stopped the payment 11 months ago, according to their relatives.
The migrant workers have been able to send money back home or return to Nepal in lack of money.
"We have stopped working for the company for the last 15 days and started demanding that it pay our past salary," said Shrawan Chaudhary.
According to the migrant workers, they are currently dependent on the support from other Nepali workers in Qatar.
Hom Bahadur Basnet, president of Doha-Qatar Nepali Society, informed that the Qatari company has been giving mere assurances of paying the workers salaries for the past several months.
The company now owes Rs 450,000 to each of the six migrant workers in unpaid salary.
According to Chaudhary, the migrant worker from Udaypur, they have been facing problems in dealing with the authorities in lack of knowledge about labor laws in Qatar.
Although the migrant workers filed a case against the company at a Qatari court, they failed to submit documents necessary to support their claims.
They are now preparing to file yet another case at the labor court.
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