The Ministry of Interior, in cooperation with other ministries, will
establish Domestic Workers’ Company to solve housemaids’ problems, reports
Arab Times daily.
Once the company is established, all other housemaid recruitment offices will
be shut down.
It will solve the problems of housemaids and will help in maintaining the
rights of both the housemaids and their sponsors, say sources, adding it will
also prevent the US from blacklisting Kuwait and accusing it of trafficking
in humans.
Sources say the new company will be responsible for the arrival, residence
and work of housemaids from their appointment until their departure.
Meanwhile, a collaborative exercise involving the Ministry of Social Affairs
and Labour and the Domestic Personnel Department at the Interior Ministry
aimed at preparing a one-stop database for expatriates through the automation
system is underway, states the Acting Assistance Undersecretary for Labour
Sector Mansour Al Mansour.
In a statement taxed to the daily, Al Mansour added that the project is being
besieged by some teething problems such as failure to obtain the needed data
from the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and restriction at various ministries
regarding release of some classified information.
He, however, singled out the Ministry of Interior for providing all needful
assistance, adding that the ministry will employ all efforts to complete the
project in line with directives from the sector minister Bader Al Duwailah.
In another development, Al Duwailah will issue a ministerial directive
extending the tenure of a committee formed to review documents of the Labour
Sector by another two months.
The committee, headed by ministry Undersecretary Mohammed Al Kandari, has
been scrutinising the transactions of all the six departments in the Labour
Sector.
Sources say 25 employees have been referred to investigations and some others
have been suspended pending investigations.
Furthermore, all appointments to fill in vacancies and the appointment of an
assistant undersecretary to replace the recently resigned undersecretary Dr
Saleh Al Shaikh will be postponed until the beginning of the next year.
