Dubai: It’s a case of so near yet so far for a Kyrgyz woman who has won Dh44,000 in compensation claims against her former employer but can’t get the money as the man has closed shop and disappeared.
Zamira Dasifu, 30, who worked as an accounts manager with a Dubai-based trading company had filed a suit against her boss for witholding her wages and other end of service benefits.
Court ruling
On March 4 this year, a court ruled in her favour and ordered the trading firm to pay her Dh44,000 in dues. But four months on, Dasifu is yet to receive a single penny as the company where she worked for three years has pulled down shutters and its owner remains untraceable.
“I am at my wit’s end now. I don’t know what to do,” she said.
Dasifu, who started at the firm as an administrator before being promoted as accounts manager, said differences with her employer cropped up when she became pregnant with her first child in November 2015. “It was a tough pregnancy. Fearing miscarriage, the doctors advised me bed rest so I took a few days off,” she recalled.
“I was preparing to rejoin in December when I was told that I can work from home until I completely recovered. Imagine my shock when my boss called me on January 20 to say that I have been fired. He asked me to come to the office and sign the cancellation papers but I refused. I told him I will not sign any papers until my dues were settled. Since that did not happen I was left with no choice but to take the matter to the court. Who would have thought it would all amount to nothing,” she said.
