New York
About 100 temporary workers from Nepal hired by a factory in Alabama
state have vanished into the blue and efforts in the past two days
to track them have failed.
Immigration agents were trying to find out what happened to the
Nepalese workers, among hundreds brought to the US to work at a DVD
factory operated by Cinram Inc. in Huntsville, a spokesperson for
the Alabama Department of Homeland Security said.
The local TV station, WAAY-TV, that first reported the matter
Tuesday quoted the landlord of apartments in two buildings rented by
the over 200 Nepalese workers that scores of them had gone without
notice, taking with them hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of
furniture, TV sets and kitchenware from the furnished apartments.
Local media reported that Cinram last year hired over 1,000 foreign
workers, including from Nepal, to pack DVD boxes because the job
market in the area could not supply its needs.
They were recruited through officially recognized recruiting
agencies and vetted by US embassies. They came on H-2B visas for
temporary unskilled labor. Most of their visas expire at the end of
May. They were paid $8 per hour for 12-hour shifts.
A spokesperson for the company that recruited the workers for Cinram
has said a contact in Nepal believes many of the missing workers
have returned home. The reason could be shrinking work hours for
many workers at Cinram, follow-up reports in the media have said.
A spokesperson for the Nepali mission in Washington, DC, told a
Nepali newspaper: "The embassy is trying to find out what happened
to them (Nepali workers), whether they have actually run away or
were forced out due to some reasons."
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