Shortage Of Domestic Workers Will Worsen Over The Next Two Months

Due to the Philippine government's decision to stop exporting domestic workers to Kuwait, Kuwait will have a shortage of domestic workers in the next two months. This decision has caused a major crisis for labor recruitment offices in Kuwait, as Filipino domestic workers are the most demanded in this sector.

Kuwaiti Union for Domestic Recruitment head Khaled Al-Dakhnan stated that the market is saturated with domestic workers, and citizens have not yet experienced the crisis of stopping domestic workers. However, the situation is expected to change during the next two months as the shortage of Filipino domestic workers becomes felt. Al-Dakhnan explained that most of the offices currently depend on Sri Lankan workers only, but they are in small numbers and ages that do not suit the requirements of the Kuwaiti family. Therefore, most of the applications in the offices are over 45 years of age, with a recruitment fee of up to 700 Dinars, in addition to paying for a Kuwait airline ticket.

According to the federation's head, the crisis is caused by a crime that can occur anywhere in the world. However, he emphasized that Kuwait is taking all legal measures against the perpetrator. He added that the federation has requested more than once to sign memorandums of understanding and open work permits with a large number of countries exporting domestic workers. This is the only solution to prevent the sector from falling into this problem annually. This would enable offices and citizens to be free to recruit domestic workers from other countries and nationalities, which achieves balance and decreases in domestic labor recruitment prices as well.

Al-Dakhnan indicated that a delegation from Kuwaiti federation traveled to the Philippines for a full month to find a solution in cooperation with Filipino federation.

 

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