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kanelli wrote:It shouldn't be too much to ask that the UAE government controls the ruthless agents, and enforces the labour rights of the workers. For example, the living conditions should be sanitary and comfortable. The salary should be exactly as promised, the vacation time should be as promised, they should be paid on time as promised, and have their safety and health care provided for as promised. It should be a given that workers keep their own passports. That is not asking too much, whatever warped prism you feel I am viewing the issue through.

If you read the regulations, measures for those are already in place and govt reviews and improves regulations and policies where they can. As S&O said company will not get permit or permit will be cancelled if it doesn't meet these regulations. If it was just asking for improvement, it would be welcomed but they way it has been done looked like smear campaign, showing partial picture, and blowing things out of proportion.

There is a saying road to hell are paved with good intentions, historically, trying to improve didn't go as planned -- look at Iran what it was then and what it is now. In short, don't mess with Dubai.

kanelli wrote:Look at the bull crap you have written from the perspective of a Pakistani doctor who clearly comes from a wealthy background and home where you probably had several servants and a driver. There should always be haves and have-nots right? That's the rightful order of things... (And I have assumptions I can make on your views on women based on your own conduct ) It takes a lot of cheek for you to say that the Bangladeshi construction worker was faking. I guess you spoke to him? Maybe you can show me your survey results from the workers you spoke to who love their working conditions in Dubai?

I think its you that has been extremely cheeky in saying all of this rubbish. You have already made several malicious personal assumptions about me here!
In addition you've called me "clueless and heartless" in your previous post. You have been calling anyone that doesnt agree with you names like "cow". And worse, threats by implication.
Where do you come from Kanelli? Is this the language of civilized discourse??
What are all those winky faces all about? What do you think are my views about women based on my conduct? How do you know what my conduct is? Have we met before? Do you know me personally??
I have been trying my best to interact with you in a civilized manner, but from this uncalled cheekiness of yours it would appear that you are not used to that.
Everyone does not have to be in agreement with you. Yes, that Bangladeshi was faking it! And there will always be exploitation and haves and have-nots as long as it is called Planet Earth and not Paradise!
The point is that Dubai is doing something about it.
And as someone has said, leave Dubai well alone. Its doing ok. Thats the consensus.

FF, when you deny or downplay that workers are mistreated in the UAE despite the overwhelming evidence found from many sources that this is happening, I'd call that pretty clueless and heartless.

I'd still like to know how you know that the Bangladeshi was faking it. That's a pretty malicious accusation against him, isn't it?

That is true that there are haves and have-nots, but it is possible to narrow that gap and make life better for more people, rather than trying to institutionalize gaps for the sake of profit and status.

The UAE has definitely made improvements; which is great, but so much more can still be done. We'll have to agree to disagree that the UAE should be left alone and not criticized for how it handles migrant workers.

kanelli wrote:Look at the bull crap you have written from the perspective of a Pakistani doctor

Where did you get this from?