Sudanese Workers Changed The Domestic Worker Scenario

The Public Authority for Manpower and the Ministry of the Interior both released reports at the end of last year that highlighted changes in the family work sector (domestic workers) compared to prior years.

According to a local Arabic daily, one of the most noticeable developments in the labour market is people's preference for Sudanese employees, particularly males, to work in various occupations instead of Asian workers, the majority of which are drivers.

According to sources, Sudanese workers have entered the top ten nationalities working in the family sector, while Ivorian workers have slid off the list, with a marked decline in the number of these workers in 2021 compared to the previous year, when over 115,000 worked in the country.

The number of Ethiopians in the family sector decreased dramatically, with around 8,000 leaving and about 10,000 remainings, while the number of registered Indonesian and Pakistani domestic workers remained consistent, with 591,000 renewing their visas last year.

In a related development, the daily has discovered that a number of domestic workers' offices want to go on strike this week in protest of being forced to take 890 dinars for new contracts that include trip tickets.

Office owners claimed that the ticket price is currently not less than 150 dinars, at a time when the price of a flight from Manila to Kuwait is 235 dinars, and sometimes 250 dinars, expressing their displeasure with what they called the Ministry of Commerce's "abuse of power" in dealing with them, and calling on the Federation of Employment Offices to resolve the issue, citing uncertainty surrounding the issue and the lack of decisions regulating the issue, according to their claim.

 

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