There is just no excuse to not pay your maid for 18 years! If it is determined that this maid worked for the same family for 18 years and was not paid, that family needs to be thrown in jail for 18 years - or at least the head of the household. 18 years! Supposedly she was "not in sound mental health when she arrived at the mission... she might have lost her memory because of an absence of contacts with her family for a long period." 18 years without a break from this place? Yeah, that would about do it! The Sri Lankan Embassy is looking into the matter. "The embassy official said that the governorate has been considerate in dealing with such cases. He recalled that a maid - on the instructions of Riyadh Gov. Prince Salman - was paid SR59,000 in unpaid salaries for a period of 14 years earlier this year." SR59,000 for 14 years of salary is considerate?!? What do you call inconsiderate??? That maid - the one paid SR59,000 for 14 years of work was earning the equivalent of SR4214 a year - that works out to SR351 a month. [$15,817.00 for 14 years of work; $1129.00 a year; $94.00 a month - or approximately $3.00 a day to work as a maid!] $3.00 a day is NOT wages! Let people in the United States scream about reparations and slavery and all that. Then force those same screaming people to come here and find out what slavery is really all about! That'd be a real eye-opener...
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I've always wondered why the employers seem to get away with this kind of thing. No mention in the article of what happened to the employer. Aren't people in Saudi Arabia allowed to sue for damages. Here in the States the employer would be jailed and the maid would have won a huge judgement against the employer, whether she was here legally or illegally.
ReplyDeleteI certainly do not believe it was considerate for the maid to only receive her back wages. What about all the suffering she went through? What about justice? She surely didn't get any. BW
"Let people in the United States scream about reparations and slavery and all that. Then force those same screaming people to come here and find out what slavery is really all about! That'd be a real eye-opener..."
ReplyDeleteAMEN! just...AMEN!
Doesn't any information of these heinous crimes of exploitation make it back to the countries and communties of these poor souls??
Those unpaid workers should be paid punitive damages in amounts designed to discourage this type of abuse (which seems to be rampant). Does the term "virtue" have no meaning other references to sexual 'promiscuity'?
I often wonder if it is exactly safe for you to write about this stuff I'm sure the SAs would rather not be widely known.
~ShyAsrai
Anonymous - Good luck suing for damages, here! "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto..."
ReplyDeleteShyAsrai - I don't write about anything that isn't already on the internet. I just link to the news, here. The internet has brought this seventh century culture a long way!
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