MoI rights department helped 2,000 workers to transfer jobs
01 Feb 2021 - 7:42
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By Sidi Mohamed | The Peninsula
Doha: The Human Rights Department of the Ministry of Interior successfully dealt with complaints of workers particularity those between the employees and the employers.
The department has helped 2,000 workers to transfer their jobs without employers’ approval in ‘arbitrary cases’ before the enactment of new job transfer law which gives more protection to expatriate workers. In order to monitor and evaluate the human rights conditions of prisoners and detainees, the Department also conducted 118 visits to penal and correctional institutions, places of detention in security departments from 2007 to 2020.