Kuwait Bids To Expand Domestic Labour Hiring

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry has sent a draft memorandum of understanding (MOU) to the Ethiopian labour authorities to clear the way for recruitment of domestic workers from the African country to ease a shortage in domestic helpers in Kuwait, a unionist has disclosed.

Chairman of Kuwait’s Union for Domestic Labour Khalid Al Dakhnan said the MOU was dispatched five days ago to Addis Ababa for revision and potential observations.

“The Foreign Ministry has amended some articles in the MOU in a manner that protects rights of the three parties involved: domestic labour, local recruitment agencies and their counterparts in Addis Ababa,” Al Dakhnan told Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida without giving details.

He added that the final conclusion of the agreement will save a lot of money for Kuwaiti citizens and foreign residents interested in hiring Ethiopian domestic workers.

“It is important to recruit domestic workers from several markets and stop limiting them to two or three countries,” he said. “Allowing the recruitment of the Ethiopian labour will strike a market balance and solve more than 70 per cent of the current shortage in domestic labour,” Al Dakhnan added.

Earlier this week, Al Dakhnan and members of the union met the Sri Lankan Ambassador in Kuwait Othman Jawhar for talks on recruitment of domestic workers from the country.

Both sides agreed to hold a workshop between the union and the embassy to discuss all issues related to the Sri Lankan workers, the union’s Director-General Abdulaziz Al Ali said.

“They include the problem of female workers stranded in the embassy who refuse to continue work for their employers and want to return to their home country,” he added.

Al Ali said that the union will approach the Kuwaiti Public Authority of Manpower to solve the problem and accommodate those workers in a shelter centre until their repatriation.

 

SOURCE  GULFNEWS

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