Manama: Kuwait's labour authorities have pledged to take stringent action against the owner of a company that has failed to pay its foreign workers for more than seven months.
An official complaint from the thousands of workers has prompted the social affairs and labour ministry to put pressure on the owner who promised to give them their dues.
However, the workers said that the company had failed to honour its commitment and that they would go on strike to press for their demands, Al Horiah daily reported on Sunday.
The workers, who provide cleaning and security services to several ministries, said that the company was keeping their passports.
Kuwait, like the other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, is home to thousands of foreign workers, mainly from Asia.
The country has been mulling ways to ease the kafala system, the sponsorship rules that give employers sweeping rights over the recruitment, employment and labour movement of expatriates in the country.
