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DEBATE * Bahrain - Trucks clamp is opposed
Manama,Bahrain -The Gulf Daily News, by Soman Baby -17 April 2007: -- A Government move to ban companies transporting workers in open trucks has been delayed due to an objection from the business community... New rules governing workers' transportation have been drawn up by the Labour Ministry and the Interior Ministry's General Directorate of Traffic... Trucks should be used only to transport materials and not human beings, said Labour Ministry labour relations director Shaikh Ali bin Abdulrahman Al Khalifa... However, the business community in Bahrain says it is not practical to transport all workers by buses to their workplaces and back... Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) board member and contractors' committee chairman Samir Nass, said transporting construction workers on air-conditioned buses would also adversely affect their health... Three workers were killed and 21 injured in a two-truck crash in Bahrain in October last year... In a similar incident in September last year, 28 construction workers were injured when they were hurled from the back of an open truck...
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