The Nepali Kathmandu Post newspaper said that although Nepali workers returning home from Bahrain without salary, bonus and other company benefits has been common for years, the issue of wage theft came to the fore after the pandemic.

Bahrain has used the foreign labor issue as a cosmetic product to cover up the deteriorating human rights situation in the country. There has; however, been no real change in the conditions of this category of residents despite Washington's award granted to its ally in this field.