DUBAI:Workers have received Dh15 million (US$4m) in back wages since February, The National reported on Sunday, citing a senior official.
“During the financial crisis several companies were going through difficult times, which resulted in the delays of salaries, sometimes only for a week or two,” said Col Mohammed al Mur, director general of the Dubai Police general department of legal and disciplinary control.
The Dubai Police’s center for the monitoring of human trafficking, which has received 344 worker complaints - 76 percent were salary related - since it opened in February 2006, gave the companies a week to pay workers their outstanding salaries, al Mur said.
“We have made it clear to companies that we will not tolerate any delays or non-payments of salaries, and violating companies have been referred to court and we will continue to do so in the future.”
However, neither the center nor al Mur disclosed the number of companies involved in the operation.
Maurizio Bussi, the deputy regional director for the International Labour Organisation (ILO), lauded Dubai Police’s initiatives, but called for more transparency
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