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OIG recommends that Embassy Abu Dhabi establish and implement a monitoring process for service contracts to ensure compliance with host-country labor laws and contractor-provided housing plans.
OIG recommends that Embassy Abu Dhabi establish a process to ensure that statements of work for service contracts include requirements that contractors should provide detailed descriptions of housing accommodations for foreign workers; provide workers with standard contracts in English and workers’ native languages that include policies on wages, overtime rates, allowances, salary increases, the contract term, leave accrual, and other personnel matters; provide workers with written information, in workers’ native languages, on relevant United Arab Emirates labor laws; and provide workers with written information, in workers’ native languages, about the U.S. Government’s zero tolerance policy toward trafficking in persons.
OIG recommends that Embassy Kuwait City establish and implement a monitoring process for service contracts to ensure that contractors comply with host country labor laws and contractor-provided housing plans.
OIG recommends that Embassy Kuwait City establish a process to ensure that statements of work for service contracts include requirements that contractors should provide detailed descriptions of housing accommodations for foreign workers and provide workers with written information, in workers' native languages, on relevant Kuwaiti labor laws.
OIG recommends that Embassy Muscat establish and implement a monitoring process for service contracts to ensure that contractors comply with host country labor laws and contractor-provided housing plans.
OIG recommends that Embassy Muscat establish a process to ensure that statements of work for service contracts include requirements that contractors should provide detailed descriptions of housing accommodations for foreign workers; provide workers with standard contracts in English and workers' native languages that include policies on wages, overtime rates, allowances, salary increases, the contract terms, leave accrual, and other personnel matters; provide workers with written information, in workers' native languages, on relevant Omani labor laws; and provide workers with written information, in workers' native languages, about the U.S. Government's zero tolerance policy toward trafficking in persons.
OIG recommends that Embassy Riyadh establish and implement a monitoring process for service contracts to ensure that contractors comply with host country labor laws and contractor-provided housing plans.
OIG recommends that Embassy Riyadh establish a process to ensure that statements of work for service contracts include requirements that contractors should provide detailed descriptions of housing accommodations for foreign workers; provide workers with standard contracts in English and workers' native languages that include policies on wages, overtime rates, allowances, salary increases, the contract terms, leave accrual, and other personnel matters; provide workers with written information, in workers' native languages, on relevant Saudi Arabia labor laws; and provide workers with written information, in workers' native languages, about the U.S. Government's zero tolerance policy toward trafficking in persons.
OIG recommends that Embassy Riyadh inform the janitorial contractor in Dhahran that keeping workers in unsafe housing is unacceptable to the U.S. Government.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Administration, Office of the Procurement Executive, clarify guidance on passport retention found in Procurement Information Bulletin 2012-10, "Contractor Recruitment of Third Country Nationals," to ensure that Department of State contracts do not authorize a contractor to engage in a practice that is otherwise illegal in a given country.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Administration, Office of the Procurement Executive, revise Procurement Information Bulletin 2011-09, "Combating Trafficking in Persons," to make the guidance mandatory so that contracting officer's representatives are required to implement the monitoring strategy as stated in the Procurement Information Bulletin.