Kuwait City: Owners of domestic employee recruitment offices conducted a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Health to call on the ministry to authorize visa re-entry and the slow return of domestic employees.
Office owners asked the Ministry of Health to take measures similar to those of neighboring Gulf countries with respect to the recruitment of domestic workers, including but not least strict regulations.
The organization said it had lost about 6. 7 million Kuwaiti dinars since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
They added that there are a large number of domestic staff with expired visas who return to their home country and are stranded in Kuwait.
Last week, The Telegraph reported that many domestic workers must give up their jobs in the Gulf due to long working hours and the threat of physical violence.
In response, the Acting Director-General of the Public Labour Authority, Dr. Mubarak Al-Azmi, announced that the Agency’s Department of Domestic Workers in the Employment Protection Sector had transferred 803 court cases from national courts to the courts, Al Qabas reported.
It reiterated that Kuwait offered comprehensive care to domestic staff and that their judicial cases would be treated seriously.
Al Azmi noted that, in accordance with Law 68 of 2015, all domestic households are legally entitled to certain hours of work, a day off consistent with the week and annual leave.
In 2015, the National Assembly passed a law granting nationals the right to 30 days of paid leave according to the year, one day off according to the week and a maximum of 12 hours of restful painting. Then, in 2016, a decree through Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al Sabah led to the creation of a minimum wage of 60 Kuwaiti dinars for domestic use
In order to visas for domesticArray, the average salary of a national on the black market has reached 400 Kuwaiti dinars (4,795 dirhams), announced last month the head of the union of the national procurement office, Khaled Al Dakhan.
Since no new visas are issued and the ban is still in effect, many domestic employees leave their existing jobs and enter the black market.
This is the first time Kuwait has banned the recruitment of domestic staff from abroad.
In April 2019, Kuwait added Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Bhutan, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the list of banned countries, bringing the total number of banned countries to 20. According to the Rights of Migrants, bans are being implemented basically because of the lack of embassies. and company management in Kuwait.
Earlier this year, the Philippines temporarily stopped hiring domestic staff in Kuwait after a Filipino domestic worker was sexually assaulted and killed through her employer.
In an interview with Al Jarida, Al Dakhan commented that Filipinos make up the largest number of domestic workers, followed by those in Sri Lanka.
Due to the closure of the recruitment agencies, the agents provided a domestic employee illegally and at a maximum price, taking into account the lack of competition.
These agents announced the domestic worker for 25 Kuwaiti dinars per hour and 250 Kuwaiti dinars per month.
The domestic painter receives 10 Kuwaiti dinars for 4 hours of paintings and 15 Kuwaiti dinars pass to the corridor, a fountain told Al Qabas.
A source of the Public Labour Authority noted that domestic staff entered Kuwait through recruitment agencies and then left their jobs, believing that they could make more money working for employers instead of just one.
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