UAE | Employment

Workers to be deported after violent demonstration

Workers involved in Saturday's violent protest in Jebel Ali industrial area will be deported, said a company representative.

  • By Wafa Issa, Staff Reporter
  • Published: 23:02 October 28, 2007
  • Gulf News

Dubai: Workers involved in Saturday's violent protest in Jebel Ali industrial area will be deported, said a company representative.

The company representative said that workers who were involved in vandalising police vehicles and public property and attacking the police and the public with stones had been taken into custody and would be deported.
 
A labour ministry official confirmed to Gulf News that the workers were in custody and a team from the ministry would complete all the paperwork for cancellation of their visas.

"All of the workers will get a lifetime ban from working in the country," he told Gulf News.

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