No Increase in Salaries of Maids in Kuwait

The authorities in Kuwait informed housemaids’ recruitment offices in the country to avoid increasing salaries or recruitment fees of domestic workers without an order from the Ministry of Interior, a local newspaper reported yesterday quoting an official statement.

“Recruitment offices around the country received a statement from the domestic workers’ division in the [Interior Ministry’s] Migration General Department, asking them to ignore instructions received from any party other than the official state departments regarding the fees for recruiting labor forces or their salaries,” Al-Qabas published yesterday.

This update comes after several offices received a letter on Sunday sent by owners of domestic workers’ recruitment agencies in the Philippines, announcing that they plan to visit Kuwait on November 2nd in order to request an increase in the minimum wages of Filipino domestic workers from KD80 to KD110 starting next December.

“Some parties are working on increasing maids’ recruitment fees and salaries in ways that would create financial burdens on citizens and expatriates,” reads the statement sent by the Interior Ministry, while Al-Qabas reported that some secretaries working in recruitment offices “have been active lately in trying to make the increase a reality.”

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