The complaint to the ILO alleges that migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are subject to a raft of labour rights violations including failing to pay wages, passport confiscation, illegal recruitment fees, debt bondage, and preventing workers freely changing jobs.
The violations amount to an epidemic of abuses, according to the trade union that made the complaint, the Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI), said they were evidence of forced labor, a modern form of slavery.
Ambet Yuson, the BWI's general secretary, said: Saudi Arabia, where trade unions are banned, blatantly disregards international labor standards and fails to compensate migrant workers who have suffered abuses for over a decade.
Minky Worden, HRW's director of global initiatives, said: The complaint effectively says that Saudi has no meaningful protections against forced labor.
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