Domestic helpers
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Crackdown On Part-time Domestic Helpers Soon15 March 2016Domestic Labor Department at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MSAL) will soon launch various inspection campaigns before the month of Ramadan to pursue ‘part-time&rs...Kuwait First Gulf State To Set Minimum Wage For Domestic Helpers16 July 2016With the decision last week by Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah to set the minimum wage for domestic helpers in Kuwait at KD60 per month, Kuwait became the firs...Bogus Domestic Helpers Office Busted15 August 2016Residency Affairs Department detectives arrested two Ethiopian men on charges of running a bogus domestic helpers office and using it to trade in absconding domestic workers , 28 p...Fake Domestic Helpers Office Busted20 October 2016Residency Affairs Department detectives arrested 37 people from various nationalities on charges of running a bogus domestic helpers office in Mahboula using it to trade in abscond...Issue On Moratorium On Deployment Of Filipino Hsws Generated Varied Reactions From The Filipino Community05 February 2017The issue on moratorium on the deployment of Filipino household service workers (HSWs) to Kuwait generated varied reactions from the Filipino community, representative and owners o...Domestic Helpers In The Country Gradually Increased16 March 2017Based on current growth rates, domestic helpers in this country could outnumber Kuwaiti citizens by 2022, Parliamentarian Saleh Ashour warned. He said that if the current growth ra...No Ban But Arab Expats Working As Domestic Helpers Are 0.5%27 December 2019Arab expatriates serving as “domestic workers” constitute a minority (0.5 percent) among those working under this clause in Kuwait, as they made up only 3,654 out of a...Kuwait's Draft Law On Expat Quotas Exempts Domestic Helpers28 July 2020A draft law aimed at fixing the demographic imbalance in Kuwait by limiting the population of the expat communities in the country to percentages in relation to Kuwaitis is current...Booming Black-market In Domestic Helpers22 August 2020The ban on passengers from 31-countries, the stringent crack-down on illegal domestic worker recruitment offices, the return of many household helpers to their home country during...