Sponsor Pays Maid Nine Years’ Back Wages - Worker/Sri Lanka/Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Rasooldeen, 1/1/08
A Saudi sponsor agreed to a settlement of SR43,200 in back wages to Reeta Nisanka, a Sri Lankan maid who was tracked down by authorities at the behest of her parents back home. Arab News learned yesterday that the maid had been working since 1999 for Ajuruz Al-Abdul Aziz, a businessman in Khaldia District in Gweiyyah, 400 km from Riyadh. She had only received three months’ wages. “The sponsor paid the salary for the first three months and later it was a case of postponement and he promised me that he would pay me in full when I decided to go home one day,” she said. Nisanka, who is from a village 140 km from the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, reportedly had stopped contacting her family
See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=105176&d=1&m=1&y=2008