Published by
Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Foreign workers at Dubai’s Expo 2020 have given further accounts of alleged exploitation at the event in interviews with The Financial Times. Workers who spoke to the outlet described how they were forced to pay back large recruitment fees, leaving them little to send home to their families back home. It comes after a UAE service provider pledged to reimburse employees who had paid for their own recruitment fees, following a report outlining the practice. Despite the use of recruitment fees being outlawed in the UAE since 1980, a number of the exhibition’s workers said they had been made to pa…