Ladies are usually denied to leave for hospital visits or urgent private activities. Bahrainis or others are subject to dismissal for any reason. No transport is provided for the expatriots, who live in camps like prisons with no private facilities provided. The problem with the factory owners is that they have very good relations with the authorities in the Ministry of Labour, which makes it very easy for them to overlook the so-called labour rules. Of course there are no trade unions or other labour protection agencies.
Wages are worse than working conditions.
This is usual in this type of business. When they complain to the Ministry of Labour they get sacked without reason because the owners have good relations with the officers there in the Ministry. Most of the workforce is South-asian as you may know. For a factory owner, expatriots are cheap and he can dismess them at his convenience.