Bin Laden group refuses to pay 50,000 sacked foreign workers their salaries, as if they're slaves

Saudi builder Binladin reportedly cuts 50,000 jobs as government cuts hit their purse. Reuters.

Construction company Saudi Binladin Group has laid off 50,000 staff, a newspaper reported on Friday, as pressure on the industry rises amid government spending cuts to survive an era of cheap oil.

The total workforce at Binladin, one of Saudi Arabia's biggest firms and among the Middle East's largest builders, is around 200,000, according to its LinkedIn page.

Saudi newspaper al-Watan, citing unnamed sources, reported that the group has terminated the contracts of 50,000 workers - apparently all foreigners - and given them permanent exit visa to leave the kingdom.

The paper said the workers refused to leave the country without getting paid and some had not received wages for more than four months. They were protesting in front of the Binladin's offices in the country almost daily, the paper added.

Binladin did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment on Friday, a day off in the Gulf region.

The company has had a series of pay disputes with workers this year. In March, scores of workers gathered outside one of the company's office in Saudi Arabia to demand unpaid wages. Read the full story here.

yesterday, employee of Bin Laden group had burn some buses as a protest for not receiving their salaries for 6months pic.twitter.com/KRJ96jH08P

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Yemen wife of bin Laden will stay in Saudi Arabia with her wealthy in-laws.

                   Hmmmm.......Hamza Bin laden born c. 1991 .......A chip of the 'old block'?


Yemen wife of bin Laden will stay in Saudi Arabia with her wealthy in-laws.(BM).SANA’A: Pakistani authorities have announced Osama bin Laden’s widows were free to return home, after having being imprisoned for entering the country illegally. News has surfaced that Amal Ahmed Abdel-Fatah al-Sadah, the late al-Qaeda’s leader Yemeni wife, has decided to return to Saudi Arabia rather than Yemen – as her in-laws there offered to take care of her and her five children.
The young woman, who originally announced she would return to Yemen, changed her mind – preferring to accept her wealthy in-laws’ offer, and enjoy a life of privilege.
The bin Ladens, who are of Yemeni ancestry, are one of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent families with billions of dollars.
Amal’s brother, who took care of his sister’s legal defense and contacted the Yemeni authorities, seeking their assistance in regard to her release and that of her children, said Amal was concerned for her children’ safety in Yemen, where anonymity would be difficult to maintain.
“The bin Laden family [in Saudi Arabia] will provide a much safer and secure environment for the children to grow up in,”Read the full story here.

Osama bin Laden's Widows and Children to be deported from Pakistan.

Osama bin Laden's Widows and Children to be deported from Pakistan.(Telegraph). Bin Laden's three widows and their children were detained by the Pakistani authorities after the Saudi was killed in an operation in the garrison town of Abbottabad, north of Islamabad, last May. The news came as Washington and Islamabad try to patch up their relationship, which was badly damaged by the revelation that the world's most wanted man was living a stone's throw from Pakistan's elite military academy. Two weeks ago a court sentenced the widows and two of bin Laden's older daughters to 45 days' detention on charges of illegal entry and residency in Pakistan and ordered their deportation as soon as possible. They are due to complete the sentence, served in an Islamabad villa designated by authorities as a "sub-jail", on Tuesday, as it officially began when they were formally arrested on the charges on March 3. "They will go tonight or tomorrow early in the morning. After 12 tonight they can be deported any time," their lawyer Muhammad Aamir told AFP on Tuesday.Aamir said the family – who number 12, including bin Laden's three widows, eight children and one grandchild – would probably initially go to Saudi Arabia. He said bin Laden's youngest and reportedly favourite wife, Amal Abdulfattah, who is Yemeni, may be sent to Yemen afterwards with her five children. A Pakistani intelligence official confirmed to AFP that the family was expected to be deported "sometime around midnight" and said "most likely they would be flown to Saudi Arabia."Read the full story here.

                                       Hamza Bin Laden .....A chip off the old block?