Tortured, Starved And Unpaid By Employers, Indian Workers In Saudi Arabia Cry For Help

Scores of Expat workers in Saudi Arabia are in dire straits and have literally been thrown on the roads due to non-payment of salaries by a company they were employed with.

The workers who hail from different states in Expat have also got court verdicts in their favour but the refusal of the company to pay them has driven them to despair.

"We are unable to survive here and cannot go back to Expat without our salaries. Life has become difficult," the workers who came out on to the roads to express their grief said. The videos were sent to TOI by the workers.

One of the workers said the company owed him Rs 8 lakh and his family back home needs money to pay tuition fees for his children and house rent. "How are our families expected to survive back home in Expat ?" the worker asked and broke into tears explaining his own difficult situation in Saudi Arabia.

Groups of Expat workers aired their grievances how they were also starving in Saudi Arabia as a result of the employer's indifference towards their plight in several videos shot on the roads. Imtiaz, an employee of Electro Industries, Jeddah sent the videos to TOI of the workers expressing their grief and pleading to be helped in their difficult times.

According to Imtiaz, apart from 170 Expat workers who were affected, there were also 250 Bangladeshis, 15 Pakistanis and 25 who belonged to the Philippines. In one video, a worker from Bihar mentions that the workers belonged to more than one company and they were deprived of their salaries.

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