Qatar
Video of workers’ housing distorted: ministry
Video of workers’ housing distorted: ministry
The Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs (MADLSA) has issued a clarification on a video circulating on social media about a domestic workers’ accommodation belonging to a licensed recruitment agency in Qatar.
In a notice posted on its Twitter page, the ministry explained what actually happened and how the truth was distorted by an individual.The notice said an inspection visit to the said accommodation revealed that there were two separate housing units – one for domestic workers who have been returned to the agency and another for newly arrived domestic workers. After an “emergency technical failure” in the electricity supply led to a power outage in the building housing returned domestic workers, those staying there were immediately shifted to the other accommodation temporarily – until the power supply was restored, the MADLSA notice said. This caused the second accommodation to be crowded “for only a few hours”, it added.