3 duped Malayali women return home from Saudi after Embassy intervention

December 11, 2016

Dammam, Dec 11: Three Malayali women, who were cheated by a travel agent in Kerala, returned home after the intervention of Indian embassy.fraud

According to them, an Ernakulam-based agency had recruited 21 Malayali women for a Riyadh-based contracting company engaged in cleaning work of government hospitals.While signing the contract in Kerala, the agency had offered them SR1,500 as monthly salary and collected Rs 85,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh from them as fees. The women reached Riyadh on March 1, 2016.

On reaching the Kingdom they were asked to sign a document in Arabic. They realized the double-dealing when they got first month's salary of SR 800 against the promised SR 1,500. When complained they were told that the job contract they had signed in Kerala was not valid and their salary and other terms depend on the agreement in Arabic. As per the Saudi labor law, job contracts prepared abroad should not be amended.

Apart from Arabic, the agreement should be in foreign worker's mother tongue and as well as in English. In this case, norms are violated.

The Malayali women contacted the company and diplomatic mission through a community activist. They were reluctant to work at SR 800 as salary and expressed desire to return home but the company refused to release them.However, the Indian embassy pressurized the company to issue exit visas to the Malayali women.

The company agreed to give exit visa to 11 women from Kerala. First batch of three have already left and eight others will leave shortly. Navodaya Kudumba Vedi, the women wing of Navodaya gave air tickets to these women. The rest of the women will remain with the company till the expiry of the contract.

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A. Mangalore
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Sunday, 11 Dec 2016

Well done. Now trace that B....d travel agent and teach him a lesson.

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