It was employees at the state Kuwait's Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor who had determined to try and deport these under-paid laborers prior to the government's judicial branch finishing its investigation of the illegally-functioning Kuwaiti owned cleaning firms.
In response to the governments nearly obscene recent actions, human rights activist, Dr. Faris Al-Wiqayan "censured a memorandum sent by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor" upon hearing of the action.
In it, Dr. Al-Wiqayan stated, "This constitutes a direct violation of human rights."
The ministry's confusing and somewhat illegal action apparently contravenes many legal procedures by the government.
One other human rights voice issued a similar statement, "The decision to deport the striking workers exposed the fact that officials are in league with officials of those defaulting companies. He also wondered why the Labor Ministry did not intervene in stipulating the salaries of those laborers that apparently does not exceed KD 20, reported Al-Qabas."
Twenty Kuwait Dinar (KD) is worth approximately 75 dollars. It is against the law in Kuwait for a company to pay less than KD 35 as a minimum wage. That is, some of the cleaning crews were being paid nearly 40 percent under the minimum wage.
POSSIBLE REASONS FOR THE BREACH OF RIGHTS
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