Local News
Nepal threatens to sue Kuwaiti companies
Published Date: December 07, 2008
KUWAIT: The Nepalese Embassy in Riyadh has given Kuwait's Minister of
Social Affairs and Labor Bader Al-Duwaila two weeks to study the
dossiers of Kuwaiti companies employing Nepalese workers in Iraq.
Lawyer Ayed Al-Subai'e, the lawyer acting on the embassy's behalf, has
threatened that the concerned companies will be sued in American courts
if the embassy's demands over the workers' conditions are not met
within the two-week period.
The action follows media reports that over 1,000 Nepalese, Indian,
Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan workers employed in Iraq by the companies,
have been and continue to be maltreated and housed in
poorly-ventilated, squalid shacks near Baghdad Airport.
Al-Subai'e also revealed that Nepal had issued a directive in 2004
prohibiting companies from taking Nepalese employees to Iraq after 11
Nepalese workers were killed by insurgents while working in the
war-torn nation.
The lawyer said he had been engaged by the Nepalese Embassy in Saudi
Arabia to defend Nepalese subjects working for Kuwaiti companies.
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