JEDDAH: Despite warnings and threats to punish employers who abuse people with disabilities, some still fail to comply.
One such employer is a contracting company that uses ghost handicapped employees in an attempt to get benefits. The people whose names appear in the company’s registers are thus deprived of the government benefits they are entitled to.
Among the 20 such people six have visual disabilities. They are also deprived of social insurance payments after the company used their names as employees for one month without their knowledge.
They expressed incredulity at the deceit.
Mohammad Tareq Al-Asheilan, 32, said he applied for annual aid a few years ago, and when he went to the social security department in June, he was asked for his bank account.
Upon registering his account, the employee told him he was not qualified for aid because he had a job and was registered for social security.
At the General Organization of Social Insurance (GOSI) he found his name registered as an employee of a contracting company. He filed a complaint with the labor office and the social security department, but they did not respond. He said the labor office did not offer any solution to his case, and told him to take legal action. He also complained of difficult living conditions since all financial aid was stopped.
Mohammad Al-Shahri said he was surprised in June when he did not receive his social security aid because he was registered as an employee with a contracting company, to his total dismay.
He said he was employed by a contracting company two years ago, so his name was probably used again by the firm.
Hassan Al-Zubeidi had the same problem with the same contracting company. He wondered how the obtained his personal data.
Mohammad Tawfiq, an activist for the visually impaired and a member of the board of directors of Ibsar Society, called on the appropriate bodies to punish the violating company.
He said the company should compensate the people it deceitfully used by paying their wages for the period of their fake employment.
One such employer is a contracting company that uses ghost handicapped employees in an attempt to get benefits. The people whose names appear in the company’s registers are thus deprived of the government benefits they are entitled to.
Among the 20 such people six have visual disabilities. They are also deprived of social insurance payments after the company used their names as employees for one month without their knowledge.
They expressed incredulity at the deceit.
Mohammad Tareq Al-Asheilan, 32, said he applied for annual aid a few years ago, and when he went to the social security department in June, he was asked for his bank account.
Upon registering his account, the employee told him he was not qualified for aid because he had a job and was registered for social security.
At the General Organization of Social Insurance (GOSI) he found his name registered as an employee of a contracting company. He filed a complaint with the labor office and the social security department, but they did not respond. He said the labor office did not offer any solution to his case, and told him to take legal action. He also complained of difficult living conditions since all financial aid was stopped.
Mohammad Al-Shahri said he was surprised in June when he did not receive his social security aid because he was registered as an employee with a contracting company, to his total dismay.
He said he was employed by a contracting company two years ago, so his name was probably used again by the firm.
Hassan Al-Zubeidi had the same problem with the same contracting company. He wondered how the obtained his personal data.
Mohammad Tawfiq, an activist for the visually impaired and a member of the board of directors of Ibsar Society, called on the appropriate bodies to punish the violating company.
He said the company should compensate the people it deceitfully used by paying their wages for the period of their fake employment.
