Kuwait - Egyptian workers threatened for protesting about months of non-payment (2011)

On 2 March nearly 300 Egyptian employees of a cleaning and contracting company staged a protest against the non-payment of their salaries. They had not been paid for eight months and held the protest as a last resort after complaints failed to achieve any change. Reports state that company management threatened the workers with dismissal and deportation after they complained. The workers had not been paid enough to buy daily meals and faced eviction from their accommodation as they could not pay the rent despite the company’s legal responsibility to take care of accommodation.

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