Habib Rehman, a Pakistani who works in human resources for a OSRS gold construction firm, said he appreciated the effort to translate labor laws into languages like Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Urdu, but said a wider campaign was needed to educate all workers.
Also, even laborers who know their rights sometimes face bosses who threaten to ban them from the UAE, he said."There are people in between who have been misusing" the laws, Rehman said. "They put them under pressure, blackmailing them."Ali Ebrahim al-Shehhi, a senior administrator at the Dubai labor office who attended.
Wednesday's meeting, answered several of Rehman's questions, stressing workers should document what they see and never sign a paper they don't understand.However, when pressed by Rehman about bosses and company heads knowingly breaking the law, he said Emirati authorities wouldn't allow it."The world has changed," al-Shehhi said. "You have to change your mentality.
United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, April 6, 2016. An buy RS gold event aimed at showcasing how the United Arab Emirates is trying to make labor laws more understandable for its vast population of foreign workers found laborers still troubled by abuses and poor conditions. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) Senior Administrator of the https://www.rsgoldfast.com/.