- Pregnant Malayali women deliver baby on Saudi Plane
- Fake Labour Officers collect money from Malayali Shop Owners
- February 8,2002.
Fake Labour Inspects cause problem of Indian Workers
keralamonitor.com Bogus labour inspectors who stop workers in the streets and other public places to rob them are becoming a common problem in the Gulf region. Keralamonitor.com reported a month back that fake labour officers have been creating problem for Indian shop owners in different parts of Oman. According to the latest reports from Bahrain, several such incidents have occurred there.
"Inspectors are not authorised to stop expatriate workers at public places, or enter houses and people should call the police if anyone tries to do by claiming himself to be a labour inspector," said Sheikh Ali bin Abdulrahman Al Khalifa, head of the labour inspection department at the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry.
Bahrain dailies have reported several incidents of expatriate workers being robbed by persons impersonating as labour inspectors following the six-month amnesty offered by the immigration authorities for expatriates to formalise their documents.
In two incidents, expatriate workers were stopped in Umm Al Hassam and at Sitra by youths claiming to be labour inspectors and demanded to see their CPR cards. When the workers produced the cards the youths snatched their wallets and fled, said one of the reports. Labour officials are authorised to carry out inspections only at commercial premises.
"No labour inspector would stop a worker at a public place. Labour inspectors from the ministry always carry proper identification. The ministry has a total of nine inspectors and moves are under way to increase this number by three fold," said the Bahraini officer. Labour iInspectors work on their own and are not accompanied by police. Companies have the right to ask for their IDs before allowing them into their premises.
Last year, the authorities launched a campaign to weed out free-visa workers in a bid to organise the labour market. Under the free-visa system, expatriate workers were brought into the country by local sponsors who often charged a fee up to BD500 and, on arrival the workers were left to find jobs themselves and work for someone else.
Pregnant Malayali passenger women deliver baby
Dubai: A pregnant Malayali woman went into labour on board of a Saudi Arabian Airlines plane, which made an emergency landing at Abu Dhabi International Airport recently. Mary Mathew, delivered a baby girl at Al Mafraq Hospital, located close to the airport. Mary was travelling alone on the flight to Mumbai from Jeddah. Both the mother and child have gone to India. According to the Gulf News, the aircraft was flying over UAE air space when Mary suddenly started crying and asked for medical assistance. The pilots decided to make an emergency landing. The Indian embassy in the UAE later arranged a visit visa for Mathew and an emergency travel document for the newborn, Ann Mary Roy.
Fake Labour Officers collect money from Malayali Shop Owners
keralamonitor.com January 16, 2002.
A number of Malayali shop owners in the Seeb-Al Hail area have said that a gang of Arabs have been visiting their shops and other establishments pretending as Labour inspection offices and collect money in a dubious manner. The gang of four will visit the shops pretending to be Labour Officers on duty, trying to capture illegal workers. The gang will come in a vehicle from the Ministry of Labour and ask for labour cards.
