A guide to general labour rights

TimesAdmin

1 year ago

Domestic house workers in Kuwait perform many essential duties in private households. They clean, cook, care for children, look after elderly family members, and perform other tasks for their employers. Despite their important role they can be exploited and to prevent this from happening Domestic worker laws provide the following terms and conditions.

Clause	The Right	Article
Treatment and Compensation for Employee Sustaining an Injury	If a domestic employee is subject to an accident while practicing work or during working hours, the employer is obliged to pay for treatment and compensate the employee for his/her injury	Article 22(1) Domestic Workers Law Article 13(1) Executive Regulations
Maintaining Personal Identification	An employer shall not retain the passport, ID card or any other personal document belonging to the employee without his/her approval	Article 12 Domestic Workers Law Article 22(4) Domestic Workers Law Article 8(8) Executive Regulations
Repatriation of the Employee’s Remains	The employer is responsible for ensuring the repatriation of the domestic worker’s remains to his/her home country in the event of the worker’s death; and must pay his/her heirs the salary for the month during which he/she died	Article 22(5) Domestic Workers Law

Sanction	Report to	Evidence
Compensating the employee for the work injury	Local police station where incident occurred & Domestic Employment Department	Medical reports Reporting Incident
Delivery of documents to the worker Temporarily suspending 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	Copy of death certificate