A Sri Lankan maid in Jordan was denied her wages for 23 years
The "Under Focus" report issued by the "Tamkeen" Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights in Jordan, which dealt with what it called "cases of human trafficking in Jordan", revealed incidents of beatings, verbal abuse, deprivation of salary, and difficult living conditions encountered by some migrant workers and foreign maids at home, Jordanian courts considered it, and ruled in favor of the affected workers and maids.
According to the Jordanian newspaper “Al-Ghad” in a report published today, the report included a number of stories it reviewed under the title “Human Trafficking”, including the story of a Sri Lankan worker who worked for the employer from 1996 until 2019 without receiving any wages, in addition to being deluded With the death of all her family in the civil war in Sri Lanka, the employer also confiscated her passport and did not issue her work permits or residence permits for the duration of her work.
The worker contacted the Tamkeen Center by phone requesting assistance. Then, Tamkeen informed the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit, which in turn summoned the employer and the worker, and after questioning her, she confirmed all the violations that occurred with her, and the employer admitted that he had not paid her wages during the 23 years of her work. .
Meanwhile, the control unit contacted the Sri Lankan embassy, and after investigating the worker's family, it became clear that her family is still alive.
Jordanian courts also considered, according to the report, the case of a worker of Bengali nationality, who was brought by a recruitment agency in 2015 and sent to work in a house, but the employer returned her to the recruitment office because she was sick, and the office employee did not believe that she was sick, so he hit her on the back and face and laid her on the ground The next day, he hit her again and threatened to throw her out of the window if she did not work.
An employee of the recruitment office provided the video clip documenting the beating of the worker, and the prosecutor of the North Amman Court attributed the crime of human trafficking to the defendants.
In his report, Tamkeen also mentioned another story that reached the courts, about a domestic worker recruitment office. In 2017, five workers of Bengali nationality and one of Ugandan nationality were detained in an unlicensed house belonging to the office. Their passports.
When the information reached the anti-trafficking unit, they moved home. The workers were transferred to the hospital due to the consequences of being beaten, and the parties to the case were referred to the security center and then to the public prosecutor, who directed the misdemeanor of human trafficking and misdemeanor misdemeanor to the staff of the recruitment office.
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