Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Labor Court has ordered a major oil drilling company to pay a total of over 626,000 dinars in compensation for the salaries of a total of 27 workers. That is since their salaries weren't paid for more than one year from 2015 to 2016, a local newspaper reported.

The newspaper quoted lawyers as saying that the company had failed to pay off its workers' wages since March 2015 to May 2016.

The company's lawyer had argued that the Bahraini judiciary was not competent to hear the claims, since the employment contracts had been concluded and implemented outside Bahrain, but the court rejected his defense.

The workers' lawyers said that the company did not deny throughout the course of the proceedings that the workers wages were not paid, and did not provide any evidence of payment of wages, which prompted the court to order that the court pays them the sums and compensations claimed, which amounted to more than 626,882 Bahraini dinars.

The company specializes in support activities for oil and natural gas drilling and technical  oil and gas services, the lawyers said.

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