Saudi Arabia has sentenced a group of foreign workers who protested against unpaid wages early last year to 300 lashes and four months imprisonment, exacerbating the already dismal plight of temporary foreign workers in the kingdom.
The men, employed by the construction conglomerates Binladin Group and Saudi Oger, had been waiting for months to be paid. Video footage from their protest in April shows them angrily setting ablaze several buses that belonged to their employers.
[...] Binladen Group, founded by the father of deceased al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, and Saudi Oger, led by Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri, both claimed they were unable to pay employees after a plunge in oil revenues.
The companies say they completed payment to 70,000 sacked employees at the end of 2016 and that workers who are still with the company would be receiving payments soon.
Source: teleSUR
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Whoever on Sunday January 08 2017, @04:05PM
Exactly what do you propose that these unpaid workers should do to get their wages?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Sunday January 08 2017, @04:10PM
Scrape the gold off some saudi toilet.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @08:25PM
I assume he wants them to do the same thing America did when bin Laden wronged her: sue the wrongdoers (here, the bin Laden Group and Saudi Oger) for damages.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @09:09PM
what do you propose
Exactly what "say anything" Runaway666 says!
[cue Maria soundtrack]
"They go get guns,
because guns are private property,
and this land is my land,
it is not your land,
from Texarkana,
to the Ozark Mountains,
this land belongs to Saudi Monarchy!!!"
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