You know those poor cleaning people in Kuwait that serve tea and coffee at major institutions, clean up the garbage in the streets, and get paid 20 KD monthly wages and sometimes not even that much? Whereas their sponsor gets paid 80KD to 90 KD per person for renting those people out for their services.
There where different complaints by these poor underpaid people that they where not even paid their salary so the goverment mandated that all the low paid workers get bank accounts and get paid through those accounts so it can properly monitor who is paying salaries or not. Problem solved?
Well maybe but some crooked sponsors still wanted to screw these workers out of their wages so at the beggining of each month you will find the sponsor's representatives standing in front of an ATM machine with a stack of 60 or more ATM cards wthidrawing for each worker the salary he just deposited for them. My friend saw this several times in Hawalli and promised to get me pictures which I hope to post here.
Wait a second, all these bank ATMs have hidden cameras in them also, the banks can report these people also, or maybe not.
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ReplyDeleteI see very little hope for people to change. I think everything is going downwards. Exactly like the Surrat-Al'assr says in the Holy Quran.
ReplyDeleteHowever, when other fail to change you can start. One simple thing anybody can do is to help the Tea boy or the street cleaner with a few KDs every month. For most of us it should not exert a financial impact. Considering we pay more for less significant things anyway.
Let's make this the official inoguration of the Adopt-a-Tea-Boy campaign.
computerchi:Why not just punish those heartless sponsors rather than subsidize their evil deeds.
ReplyDeleteMac: well guest worker sounds more PC than tea boy or garbage man.
I think, aiding the workers alone, without punishing the employees or force them to provide more humane environment to the workers would be a waste of time, especially then those heartless employees would benifit and will relay on us to cover the workers needs....
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