The report stated several violations including the deduction of wages, working up to 16 hours a day without receiving payment for the extra-working hours, and not receiving legal holidays such as annual leave, sick leave, and maternity leave, and the denial of official and religious holidays, and the deduction of wages in the event the worker did not work during those holidays.
The report also indicated that some recruitment companies did not include the periods of service of the sanitation workers in the social security or did not fully register in the security, despite the deduction of the value of the contributions from their wages. Workers often discover these violations when they are exposed to a work accident or upon early retirement. The Social Security Corporation has seized 1,500 cases of companies evading the registration of workers with Social Security.
When it comes to wages, the report mentioned that some of these companies do not give their employees any wage increases, regardless of their years of service. In the face of these existing violations, many sanitation workers are unable to file complaints for fear of losing their jobs.
In the report, the Workers’ House recommended the authorities to oblige employers to provide sufficient information about workers’ entitlement to their rights and wages, and for the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Health, and the Public Institution for Social Security to tighten their control over the companies’ commitment to fulfilling the workers’ rights and implementing labour and social security laws, by finding a mechanism for cooperation among them.
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