Jobless and without pay, migrant workers are returning home. But they have no recourse for compensation
Kathmandu, July 4 -- In January, when Kalim Miya migrated to Sharjah, the third-largest city in the United Arab of Emirates, he paid nearly 35 times more than the price ceiling set by the government to go overseas for employment.
For a taxi driver's job, Miya from Laxmi Bazar, Gorkha, had paid Rs345,000 to a Kathmandu-based recruitment agency.
When Miya returned home on June 22 in an evacuation flight, he had no money on him.
"I did not get even one-month's salary during my time in Sharjah," Miya told the Post.
After returning home, Miya has been staying in a quarantine facility at Shree Manakamana Deaf Residential Secondary School in Gorkha Municipality-9.
"I had taken some money with myself when I left for Sharjah. Once I reached t...
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