Kuwait – The delayed payments of salaries crisis in Al-Kharafi International is on going for eight months. The company refused to pay the salaries of its workers and technicians at the state desalination plants and the generation of electricity under the pretext of bankruptcy. While sources indicated that the company received the funds of government contracts to operate the stations. . According to labor sources inside the company, the number of workers with delayed salaries exceeded five thousand workers, mostly of Indian and Egyptian nationalities. Volunteer groups of civil society organizations opened the door to donation to gather food, clothing and drink to workers in an attempt to ease the crisis on workers, who are suffering from cutting off their salaries from the countrys richest company. Most of the workers are hiding in their homes and some are hiding inside the station, fearing the arrest of the authorities because of the accumulation of debts and rents on them, and because their residency expired and the company refuses to renew unless they pay approximately 300 Kuwaiti dinars (thousand dollars).
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