Service of a Domestic Worker: Saudis Have 3 Options

RIYADH — Minister of Labor and Social Development Muferrej Al-Haqabani has issued decisions to regulate the domestic labor market by diversifying a range of services.

The decisions relate to recruitment companies. They define three types of services recruitment companies can provide: Mediating in the recruitment, offering the services of domestic workers, and the transfer of sponsorship.

When offering the services of a domestic worker depending on flexible work hours, the company accommodates the domestic worker during the period of service.

The ministry also recently approved a raft of recruitment regulations that allow citizens to benefit from the transfer of the services of domestic workers.

According to the regulations, transferring sponsorship depends on a fee agreed between the two parties.

The licensed recruitment agency is required to post fees on Musaned portal.

Khaled Abalkhail, spokesman of the ministry, said that the recently approved regulations curb the exuberant recruitment fees and provide quality and suitable services for citizens and residents.

He said the new rules set for regulating recruitment have instructed the licensed agency to define the service type relating to visas requested for recruiting domestic workers and use the standard form of the ministry.

With the new schemes, the recruitment companies should adhere to the fixed cost that people pay in exchange of service.

Companies transferring the sponsorship of household workers should also abide by the standard work contract that the ministry approved earlier, Abalkhail stressed.

(Source: SaudiGazette.com.sa)