{"id":204383,"date":"2024-12-30T05:26:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T05:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/30\/11-of-47-workers-stuck-in-cameroon-brought-to-jharkhand\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T05:26:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T05:26:12","slug":"11-of-47-workers-stuck-in-cameroon-brought-to-jharkhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/30\/11-of-47-workers-stuck-in-cameroon-brought-to-jharkhand\/","title":{"rendered":"11 of 47 workers stuck in Cameroon brought to Jharkhand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-116783597,imgsize-76609.cms?resize=800,511&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"11 of 47 workers stuck in Cameroon brought to Jharkhand\" title=\"11 of 47 workers stuck in Cameroon brought to Jharkhand\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"16\">The <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/jharkhand-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jharkhand government<\/a> said 11 of the 47 <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/workers-stranded-in-cameroon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workers stranded in Cameroon<\/a> in central Africa were brought to the state and efforts were underway for the safe return of the remaining labourers. The development comes after the state government filed FIRs against a <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mumbai-based-firm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mumbai-based firm<\/a> and some middlemen for alleged <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/non-payment-of-wages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-payment of wages<\/a> to 47 workers from the state, who were stuck in the African country. <\/p>\n<p><style><![CDATA[\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand p, #stock_pro.onDemand p{font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.28;}\n    \t    .onDemand .live_stock{left:17px;padding:1px 3px 1px 5px;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;line-height:18px;top:9px}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{margin:0 auto 0;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{color: #024d99;margin-top:10px;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .crypto .live_stock .lb-icon{8px 6px 5px 3px !important}\n    \t    #sr_widget.crypto.onDemand a.text{border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;padding-bottom:5px;display:block;width:100%}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc .text p, #stock_pro.onDemand .sr_desc .text p{font-size:12px;font-weight:400;}\n    \t]]><\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:2-->&#8220;Eleven out of 47 migrant workers from Jharkhand, stranded in Cameroon, were brought to the state as per instructions of <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/chief-minister-hemant-soren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chief Minister Hemant Soren<\/a>. All the workers were sent to their homes by the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/labour-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Labour Department<\/a>. The return of the remaining 36 workers is also being ensured,&#8221; a statement from the chief minister&#8217;s secretariat said on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the labour commissioner had filed the FIRs at Hazaribag, Bokaro and Giridih police stations against middlemen and employers following a direction from Soren who had received complaints that these workers did not receive their wages for three months. <\/p>\n<p>After the government took action, the process to make payment of wages to the workers was initiated, the statement said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The control room team has been continuously contacting the officials, the company and workers through email and phone, and the total outstanding amount of Rs 39.77 lakh has been paid to the workers,&#8221; the statement said. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/include_growfast.cms?pagename=article&skipcss=1potime:1--><br \/>It alleged that the employers and middlemen sent these workers to Cameroon without registering them under the Inter-State Migrant Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979, and without obtaining the required licence. The workers drew the attention of the CM for non-payment of their wages for three months, following which the State Migrant Control Room contacted the workers and the employers. The state government has sought the contract and wage details of the workers, besides other documents. <\/p>\n<p>Efforts were being made to ensure the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/safe-return-of-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">safe return of workers<\/a> and the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/ministry-of-external-affairs\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry of External Affairs<\/a> has been informed about it, the statement added.<\/p>\n<style><![CDATA[\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand p, #stock_pro.onDemand p{font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.28;}\n    \t    .onDemand .live_stock{left:17px;padding:1px 3px 1px 5px;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;line-height:18px;top:9px}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{margin:0 auto 0;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{color: #024d99;margin-top:10px;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .crypto .live_stock .lb-icon{8px 6px 5px 3px !important}\n    \t    #sr_widget.crypto.onDemand a.text{border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;padding-bottom:5px;display:block;width:100%}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc .text p, #stock_pro.onDemand .sr_desc .text p{font-size:12px;font-weight:400;}\n    \t]]><\/style>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/11-of-47-workers-stuck-in-cameroon-brought-to-jharkhand\/articleshow\/116783597.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jharkhand government said 11 of the 47 workers stranded in Cameroon in central Africa were brought to the state and efforts were underway for the safe return of the remaining labourers. The development comes after the state government filed FIRs against a Mumbai-based firm and some middlemen for alleged non-payment of wages to 47 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-116783597,imgsize-76609.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[14292,59675,160926,160928,2094,47590,74808,10294,160929,160924,160927,160925,3395,2252,160923],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204385,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204383\/revisions\/204385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}