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Join Date: 27 Apr 2010
Location:  KuwaitPosts: 303 |
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GCC states ask ILO to set out duties of domestic workers recruitment |
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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states stressed here on Friday that the proposed international agreements on domestic workers should discuss the duties of recruitment agencies that brought the workers from abroad.
This came in a speech by Director of the General Immigration Department of Kuwait's Interior Ministry, Major General Kamil Al-Awadhi, on behalf of the GCC states, at the 99th annual conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO). He said that it was important that recruitment agencies brief the domestic workers about their rights and duties, as well as the culture of the societies that they would be working in. He stressed that domestic workers in the Gulf countries lived in the houses of citizens and were treated as members of the families at which they worked. They get proper accommodation and meals, he pointed out. The GCC states coordinate with each other and exchange information on policies regarding dealing with workers, he said. |
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