Officials at Gulf Air, Batelco, Bahrain Airport Services and APM Terminals Bahrain have said they dismissed more than 200 workers due to absence during the strike.

The UN labor rights agency urged Bahrain in June to give jobs back to at least 2,000 workers fired for striking in support of the protests.

“Gulf Air’s board ... discussed the reinstatement of employees dismissed for their unauthorized absence from work and unanimously passed a resolution to reinstate an additional seventy-nine employees, bringing the total number reinstated to 136,” Gulf Air said in a statement.

The airline said in May it had laid off 200 employees.