Passport Holding and sponsorship
Does the employer has the right to hold your passport eventhough they are not your sponsor? This new employer has my passport and the transfer document named to the new employer given to me by my previous employer/sponsor. The remaining document needed for me to transfer under to this new employer is the PCC (Police clearance cert and School certificate). May I know guys what is this company right over me because i dont want to transfer to this company. I thought before that this is a good company.
and your NOC is addressed to the third employer?
You filed your resignation when?
The reason why an employer has your passport is to proceed with the visa transfer. They maybe waiting for you to had over the NOC for them to take the next step.
BUT...you went and accepted another offer from another company???? TSK TSK TSK.
You are in a rut because you did it to yourself. If I were the second employer, I'll have you pay me back for the expenses(visa transfer fee, salary...etc).
So if the passport is held by the employer, are we allowed to lodge an anonymous complaint? if yes, where can we do that at?? NHRC or labor dept?
poelitely and tell them you are not anymore interested in working with them. Turn-over all your current work to a designated co-worker and ask HR to release you!
Thanks everyone. My situation are these:
1.0 I am still in probation period for 3 months and that probation will end this month.
2.0 I did not sign a contract even the job offer to me.
3.0 I already filed my resignation from this company.
4.0 I got another job offer and i accepted and signed it, and my previous employer issued me again an NOC for the second time and named it to the employer.
Please guys help me your advice.
YES, the new employer have the right to hold your passport because they are processing your transfer just waiting for your supporting documents. Once you have your new QID, then they need to give you your passport.
It is illegal to hold someone's passport. It is the law. I would report it to my Embassy and the Ministry of Labour if my employer tried to hold my passport.
What if the employee have runaway to their sponsor and the employee have his passport , is still possibility of the sponsor to report the runaway employee to CID ?
Retaining the passports by the sponsor is not to be labelled as "Confiscation" rather it is to be under "safe control" by the HR dept., In practical, many of the company's still practice holding passports of not only labors but staff also.
Expatriates are the cause for this, they run away from the sponsor due to some reason, when you report to CID, you need to surrender expats PP also, this is why most of them collect PP from employees. In no way it should hurt an expat as long as he is under sponsor's magic stick.
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Even u sign contract with a company don't have right to hold ur passports....... Read ur labour law note
Absolutely and as per the law the employer has no right to hold your passport.
Your passport is the property of the government that issues the passport. No one other than yourself has the right to hold it and even you don't if your government deems otherwise.
That is the law in Qatar and the law of your government. Report them to the Ministry of Labour.
If he isn’t your sponsor he have no rights to hold your passport for any reason, unless you sign a contract with the company!