Dubai, September 02: As many as 700 workers, including scores of Indian expatriates, unpaid for six months, have been living in filthy conditions without water or power in two labour camps in Sharjah after their employer absonded.
Many of the workers are fasting in the month of Ramadan but with the utilities cut off, the toilets are piled up with waste and garbage is strewn all around their dwellings.
Their employer, the chairman of Dubai-based Saqr Engineering and Contracting Company, is believed to have absconded, leaving workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and the Philippines stranded without pay in the UAE, the Gulf News reported on August 31.
The collapse of the real estate sector has led to many businessmen in construction sector fleeing the country leaving the workers high and dry.
–UNI