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Above: Owing to its explosive growth over the past few decades, Dubai has become a popular destination for migrant workers. Below: The thousands of migrant workers employed in Dubai often live in camps outside of the city. 18 Melbourne Host Directorate PTY LTD | Office of Media and Design
The GCC states have some of the highest proportions of foreign laborers in the workforce in the world. international center of finance, trade, and tourism. Dubai’s rapid development relied heavily on the use of foreign labor to build roads, buildings, ports, and other projects cheaply and efficiently. Thousands of Arab and later South Asian workers poured in over the years, occupying labor intensive positions as construction and domestic workers. Steadily, Dubai began using almost exclusively foreign labor from Asian countries, such that in 2005 over 87 percent of its labor force came from Asia. 53 in fact, today, Dubai counts as much as 85 percent of its population as foreigners, many of whom came searching for jobs among its growing construction and service industries as well as positions as domestic workers. 54 age at 15, mandated that employers provide financial compensation for employees injured in the workplace, and required employers to provide overtime, leave, and safety measures to workers, among other provisions. These workers are predominantly Asian, but in recent years there has been an increasing number of African workers as well. In contrast to the workers of Western Europe, however, these contemporary workers often do not bring their families and instead send a portion of the money they earn back to their families in their home countries. Despite the growing numbers of workers living in the country, the UAE passed remarkably few laws governing employer responsibilities and labor rights. The 1980 Labor Law of the <strong>United</strong> Arab Emirates was one of the few enacted. It set the minimum working 55 However, employers were not required to provide insurance to employees, and there was no recognition of unions or of employee collective bargaining rights. The U AE also set forth mechanisms for the implementation and interpretation of labor by allowing members of the Ministry of Labor to act as arbiters in cases involving labor disputes. 56 Workers can file complaints with the Ministry, as which point it will become a mediator of employer-employee negotiations and, if a solution cannot be achieved, an arbiter. These mechanisms for the protection of workers have faced scrutiny in recent years. Numerous reports of abuses of migrant labor, including failure to pay wages, inhumane living conditions, and extended work hours. Workers complain of having their passports taken from them, and being forced to live in unsanitary labor camps on the outskirts of the city. 57 Oftentimes, the workers claim, they are forced to live in rooms with up to 11 other people without proper plumbing or air conditioning. 58 Many of the workers paid recruitment agencies to bring them 19 Melbourne Host Directorate PTY LTD | Office of Media and Design
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