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Crisis in Lebanon provokes MWDWs’ deportation
24-12-2019
In its issue of today, Al Akhbar highlighted the current economic crisis and its impact on the fate of scores of migrant domestic workers who are being deported by their sponsors. Citing concerned NGO sources, the newspaper revealed that many contracts have been canceled and MWDWs deported in the past few weeks. Several reasons are behind this, Al Akhbar wrote. Employers are unable to pay the wages in US dollars as stipulated in the work contract and the MWDW refuses to be paid in the Lebanese lira. Other workers opt to leave for being unable to transfer their salary to their families abroad for financial restrictions. On the subject, the newspaper spoke to the lawyer at Kafa, Enough Violence and Exploitation, Mohana Isaac, who explained that the dire economic conditions could exacerbate the employer-worker relationship, leading sometimes to forms of violence. The present status quo in the country may contribute to an increasing number of MWDWs without legal residency papers. On the other hand, the head of the Syndicate of Owners of Recruitment Offices in Lebanon, Ali Amin, pointed out that the dilemma started in early 2019 due to the delay on the part of the labor ministry in signing relevant agreements. And with the beginning of the depreciation of the local currency three months ago, the sector is actually clinically dead, Amin added, pointing to the closure of some 17 (out of 600) offices since two months. (AL Akhbar, December 24, 2019)
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