Thirty Bangladeshis working in Mawaleh’s Sana area of Muscat have alleged that the company that hired them has not paid their salaries or given them their return air ticketsas committed, reports UNB.
The workers said a decision in this regard was announced after a meeting on December 2012 which said they would get two years’ salaries and air tickets to go back home and their passports returned, reports the Muscat Daily.
They claimed all of them were entitled to their salaries, air tickets and return of their passports as per the decision.
The workers allege that they continued working for the company despite not being paid, and completed two housing projects in Mawaleh’s Sana area.
“Currently, all 30 of us are accommodated in one flat. Four of us never got our residence cards, while the residence cards of five others have expired and those of some have been withheld by the company. We have informed the Bangladeshi embassy in Muscat. We have had no work for the past one year,” a 22-year-old worker in the group said.
“Most were hired for a salary of Oman Rial100,” he said.
The person who hired the workers for his company told the daily, “I sold the company to another person a year ago. Now, the onus of paying the compensation if any and other benefits to the workers is on the new owner.”
He added that he will get in touch with the new owner regarding the matter.