Domestic help can sometimes be subjected to abuse when they living with their employers. When it comes to safety and maintaining a healthy work environment in Kuwait, one should take in special consideration to articles drawn by the Domestic workers’ law to ensure improvement in living conditions. Domestic worker laws provide the following terms and conditions.

Clause The Right Article
Accommodation  

The employer is obliged to provide the worker with adequate accommodation, as well as decent and healthy living conditions

  • Article 11 Domestic Workers Law
  • Article 8(7) Executive Regulations
Employees Clothing  

The employer must provide the domestic employee with appropriate and sufficient clothing

 

  • Article 9 Domestic Workers Law
  • Article 8(5) Executive Regulations
Employee Healthcare The employer must provide the employee with treatment and healthcare from public hospitals  

  • Article 9 Domestic Workers Law
  • Article 8(6) Executive Regulations
Housing Employees in the Office The recruitment office shall not, for any reason, use the office to house workers and it should provide workers with separate accommodation.
  • Article 4 Domestic Workers Law
  • Article 49 Domestic Workers Law
  • Article 7(2) Executive Regulations

 

Sanction Report to Evidence
• Suspension of the granting of entry visas to the employer for 6 months  

Domestic Employment Department

 

  • Allegation
  • Witnesses
Cancellation of license Domestic Employment Department  

  • Reporting Incident.
Suspension of the granting of entry visas to the employer for 6 months  

Domestic Employment Department

 

  • Allegation
  • Witnesses
Suspension of the granting of entry visas to the employer for 6 months Domestic Employment Department
  • Allegation
  • Witnesses

 


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