MAID'S OFFICES ARE CLOSED AFTER VICTIMS FILE A COMPLAINT, KUWAITI CITIZENS SUFFER FRAUD

  • 04/10/2022

Kuwait City: Many citizens became victims of multiple frauds in the midst of the country's current "domestic labour shortage" crisis when some owners of domestic labour offices announced new contracts for female workers from the Philippines at discounted prices compared to the rest of the offices, taking advantage of the citizens' needs and luring them, and they ended up filing hundreds of complaints with the Public Authority for Manpower, which responded by closing the offices. PAM took legal action against some domestic labour offices after citizens filed complaints alleging that the offices had failed to adhere to their terms and conditions of providing a domestic worker. 


According to informed sources, the closed offices did not respond to the Department of Domestic Labor in the authority's request to visit PAM, so they were administratively closed for three months and their licences were revoked by the Ministry of Commerce.

According to the sources, many complaints were filed against offices that took money from citizens in order to bring in a domestic worker at a reduced rate, which they advertised in the media, and it turned out that they had signed fictitious contracts. 

Bassam Al-Shammari, a domestic labour affairs specialist, has warned some labour recruiting offices against such manipulations, calling them "just a trap to loot citizens." According to Al-Shammari, many offices have purposefully harmed the reputation of other domestic workers recruiting offices in recent months through fraudulent operations.

However, the change and rise in new contracts was concentrated primarily in two nationalities, Indian and Filipino. According to the daily, 26.6 thousand workers came from the Philippines, 23,000 from India, and 8 thousand from Sri Lanka in the last six months, with 67.4% of them being women and 61,000 being first-time workers.

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