The study aims to examine the extent to which domestic workers, employers, recruitment agencies and civil society that deal with domestic workers benefit from Law No. 68 on domestic workers, year 2015. The study also looks at the effectiveness of the implementation of the law three years after it was adopted. Migrant domestic workers account […]
Arab Times | 3 October 2018 The report looks at the real face of labor in Kuwait by monitoring the administrative and legal aspects and the positive and negative changes and to what extent they affect the lives of migrant workers ‘non-Kuwaitis’ and the impact of all this on the Kuwaiti society, the country, economic
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Naser Al Wasmi The National | 23 July 2018 The Philippines is demanding that domestic worker agencies pay $10,000 dollars to recruit Filipinos in Kuwait. The money is intended as a guarantee for a safe return of employees to the Philippines in case of an emergency. The move comes after Kuwait and the Philippines agreed
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India’s decision to scrap the bank guarantee scheme for employers in Kuwait and Oman is drawing criticism from human rights campaigners. Many believe that the revoking of these schemes will make it harder for domestic workers who are abused or unpaid to get home. India had recently scrapped the $2,500 bank guarantee in Kuwait, followed
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After much uproar from employers in Kuwait, India has scrapped with immediate effect the $2,500 (720 Kuwaiti Dinar) bank guarantee, which was made mandatory in 2014 while recruiting Indian nationals as domestic help workers. The bank guarantee was decided upon following frequent complaints relating to sexual assault and abuse from Indian female workers employed in
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By Abubakar A Ibrahim Arab Times | 11 September 2017 KUWAIT CITY, Sept 10: MP Mubarak Al-Hajraf has forwarded questions to Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and State Minister for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh on the recruitment of expatriates. He said the Council of Ministers issued a statement following the weekly session held on
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By Ben Garcia and Isobel Ransome Kuwait Times | 04 September 2017 KUWAIT: A government-backed recruitment agency for domestic helpers in Kuwait is mooted to lower fees and clean up the industry. But embassies of countries with large populations of domestic helpers here as well as private recruiting agencies, both in Kuwait and in those
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Arab Times online |8 May 2017 KUWAIT CITY, May 8: Head of the Parliament’s Economic Committee Sa’ad Al-Khanfour announced that the cost for hiring domestic workers will be about KD 400 after the domestic labor recruitment company will officially launch operations on September 1, affirming that the building specified for the company is ready. He
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Arab Times 30 March 2017 KUWAIT CITY, March 29: Owners of recruitment companies and domestic labor bureaus have warned that the domestic labor market in Kuwait is bound to face a huge crisis, reports Al-Rai daily. They indicated that the cost of recruiting domestic workers from the Philippines has been increasing erratically due to some
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KUWAIT: Even as a number of lawmakers called for the formation of a special temporary committee to study the demographic imbalance in the country, a government committee entrusted with studying the cancellation of the kafala (sponsorship) system is forging ahead to find a solution that will protect the rights of both employers and employees, achieve
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