Saudi lifts ban on Pinoy maids

[Terpe]

Giving in to the demands of the Philippine government to protect the rights of domestic workers, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has lifted a one-year ban on the hiring of domestic servants from the Philippines.
According to a report of Emirates 24/7, the Philippines and Saudi signed an accord in Manila last week setting the monthly salary of Filipino helpers in Saudi Arabia at a minimum SR1,500 ($400).

The agreement states that Filipino domestic workers will be entitled to the following:

•a weekly day off;
•an annual holiday of at least 30 days;
•right to keep their passports during their stay in the Gulf Kingdom, and
•a free ticket to their home country every year.
The agreement likewise stipulates that employers must:

•bear all fees related to visa, residence, arrival and departure;
•treat their maids nicely, and
•avoid forcing them to work at another house.

Quoting the Saudi daily Alhayat, the report said: “Under the agreement, the employer must also open a bank account for the housemaid to transfer her salary to the bank at the end of every month…the employer is also bound to provide the maid with decent housing and food or an allowance for the two.”

Gulf News said "more than 1.5 million housemaids from the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and other Asian and African nations work in Saudi Arabia."

Ban on maids

Starting July 2 last year, Saudi Arabia stopped issuing work visas for domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia because of its labor rows with the two countries.

“The Ministry of Labor will stop issuing work visas for domestic workers for the Philippines and Indonesia from Saturday (July 2)," Hattab Bin Saleh Al-Anzi, a spokesman for the Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Labor said, according to report on news site Arab News.

The decision of the Saudi government affected 180,000 domestic workers in Saudi, or about 15 percent of more than 1.2 million Filipinos working there.

According to the report, Al-Anzi said the ministry decided to stop hiring domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia after the two countries imposed stricter conditions on prospective Saudi employers.

Source:-
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...y-of-400-month

[Ann1984]

1. The agreement states that Filipino domestic workers will be entitled to the following. - Such these, agreement would turn to whoever the employer violated. Be imprisoned in jail

Ban on maids

Starting July 2 last year, Saudi Arabia stopped issuing work visas for domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia because of its labor rows with the two countries.

In my own opinion, It must therefore, they will stop hiring domestic workers in the country KSA. for reason, many OFW's cases in saudi not given justice.

[grahamw48]

Oh dear they're going to have to pay slightly more of a pittance to their slaves than before.

I feel so sorry for these wealthy Arabs, to whom women are mere chattels, to be used and abused as they wish.

If it wasn't for the oil revenues ....and us getting the stuff out of the sand for them, along with educating their kids, they'd still be riding bloody camels and living in tents.

I know the OFWs need the work, but if the Phils govt. really cared they'd refuse to allow ANY Filipinas to go to that place, (despite the glossy veneer of modern structures and services that WE built for these cruel and primitive people).

[Tawi2]

I met an arabic gentleman once who told me he got 2 pinay maids for his son to "Practice" on,he was slightly drunk,it was a long time ago but something tells me he wasnt kidding
They never lifted the ban on Thai maids though did they after the jewellery heist

[joebloggs]

I met an arabic gentleman once who told me he got 2 pinay maids for his son to "Practice" on,

i worked with 2 Libyans for a couple of years, they said the same and also people treated the maids like

[Tawi2]

Of course,the pinoy government should hang their heads in shame,they are modern-day legal slave-traders in some ways selling their people off to the highest bidders,encouraging mass-temporary migration because of the remmittances that keep pinas afloat while their citizens are viewed as a cheap labour source.

[lastlid]

Yep, many arabs have a very poor attitude to their own women, let alone foreign women.

[aronbabev]

How I wish that our Government can give work for the Filipino National's without any restrictions, based on their education and skilled,so that no can force to work outside countries being a slave or Stop sending Domestic helpers in Arabian and Chinese Countries to avoid being abused of this cruel people.i agreed to this agreement but I more agreed if the gov't stop sending D.H in Arabic countries.its not safe.

[lastlid]

How I wish that our Government can give work for the Filipino National's without any restrictions, based on their education and skilled,so that no can force to work outside countries being a slave or Stop sending Domestic helpers in Arabian and Chinese Countries to avoid being abused of this cruel people.i agreed to this agreement but I more agreed if the gov't stop sending D.H in Arabic countries.its not safe.

I think investment in infrastructure and industry in the Philippines would be a good start so that Pinoys dont have to go abroad so much to earn a good living.

[Iani]

The wrong people have the oil.

Practice on? scum.

[Englishman2010]

The wrong people have the oil.

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It's not so much that the wrong people have the oil, it's our own fault for allowing ourselves to be held ransom to them by our over reliance on oil. We should have started looking for credible and cheap alternatives decades ago. If no one needed their oil their economies would collapse and they'd soon slip back into the dark ages.