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The Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) is a government body in Bahrain with a corporate identity endowed with full financial and administrative independence under the authority of a board of directors chaired by the Minister of Labour. The Authority was established on 31 May 2006 to regulate and control work permits for foreign workers ...
The Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) estimate that around 70,000 migrant workers that live in Bahrain are undocumented. The majority of them are Bangladeshi workers. Although the government assert the labor code for the private sector applies to all workers, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and international NGOs noted foreign ...
The 2009 law provided that migrant workers could only receive residence permits without sponsorship in very limited circumstances, that migrant workers are only allowed to work for the employer which sponsored them and that sponsorships can only be transferred by the Minister of Interior in case of labor disputes or when abuse of the employee ...
As of 2019, Bahrain had an estimated population of 1.64 million, up from the official 2010 census population of 1.23 million, of which 666,172 (53.5%) in 2010 were non-Bahraini, mainly foreign workers. There were 568,399 Bahraini citizens, 99.8% of which were Muslim. There are about 1,000 Christian citizens [6] and about 40 Jewish citizens. [7]
A study by the Bahrain Government's Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) found that 65 percent of migrant workers had not seen their employment contract, and that 89 percent were unaware of their terms of employment upon arrival in Bahrain. Many labor recruitment agencies in Bahrain and source countries require workers to pay high ...
Represented His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahrain Prime Minister in the United Nations Security Council's Conference on Human Trafficking, New York (December 20, 2016). Represents the Kingdom of Bahrain in the annual conferences of the ILO, the Arab Labour Organization (ALO), and a number of other related Arab and ...
Eight thousand Bangladesh migrant workers lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bahrain in 2020. [10] 1200 Bangladeshi workers were stuck in Bangladesh following the COVID-19 pandemic and suspension of international flights. [11] There were over 200 thousand Bangladesh migrant workers in Bahrain. [12] In May 2020, the government of ...
The establishment of the Federation was part of a number of key labour reforms introduced under the Minister of Labour, Majeed Al Alawi. [citation needed]The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' Annual Survey 2005 highlighted: "Bahrain, a bright spot in an otherwise dismal landscape of persistent labour rights violations in the Middle East". [3]