Not the right way to go about it
By Good old joe •
The employers keep the workers passports when the workers get here and then when the workers want to live they need an exit visa to get out of this place and still some employers have to put this notices in the newspapers and today looks like one of those really bad days for those notices in GT. Its so demeaning, disrespectful and not in tune with todays worker-employer relationships and certainly not sending the right signals to the other workers in those companies.
http://www.gulf-times.com/mritems/streams/2011/8/8/2_451625_1_255.pdf
Yes, it's not the right way to do it. It's demeaning and contradicts a person's human right. Another thing, the passport is the property of the individual whose name it bears, the country to which that individual is citizen of, or the embassy which issued it. No one has the right to withhold someone else's passport. But there are two sides to this. It may be kept by the sponsor for safekeeping to avoid lost or further related problem to both the employer and the employee.
who ever said this place is "in tune with today's worker-employer relationships"?!?!?!...