The Slaves of Dubai - Page 2

Many of these people would be better off back home. Alot of them are farmers from villages who actually sold property in order to come to Dubai on the promise of earning good money. Some of them are better off in Dubai, but the problem is the way they lie to these people. If they were honest with these people, and they still came, it wouldn't bug me so much.

Recruiters come to the villages and tell them about how they work 9-5 jobs and will earn $600 a month. When they actually arrive in Dubai and their passports are confiscated, they tell them things have changed, they're now working 14 hour days for $200 a month. If they want to quit, their employers remind them they have them on contract, the employee has no money to pay for a flight home, and tell them they're not giving them back their passport.

Recruiters also tell them they have to pay a "visa fee" and pay for their flight which they claim costs $4,000. Really it costs like $700, and it's illegal in Dubai to charge workers for these fees, it's the employers responsibility. In order to raise the money, these people take loans, often from the recruiters and loan-shark interest rates. Many of them spend the first few years trying to work off their debt.

What they do to these workers is criminal, even by the lax standards of Dubai, but the government looks the other way and employers don't care.