Reports issued by the Public Authority for Manpower and the Ministry of Interior revealed changes happening in the family work sector (domestic workers) at the end of last year compared to previous years.
The reports indicated that one of the most prominent changes that occurred in this labor market is the demand of citizens to contract with Sudanese workers, especially men, to work instead of Asian workers in various jobs, most of which are drivers, according to a local Arabic daily.
According to reports, the Sudanese labor entered the top 10 nationalities list working in the family sector, while Ivorian workers dropped from the list which witnessed a clear decrease in the number of these employees in 2021 compared to the previous year when approximately 115,000 worked in the country.
The decline in the number of Ethiopians was high compared to the total number in the family sector, where about 8,000 of them left the country, and about 10,000 remained, while the number of registered Indonesian and Pakistani workers within domestic workers remained stable, with 591,000 renewing their residencies last year.
]In another context, the daily has learned that a group of domestic workers’ offices intend to refrain from working this week, in protest against obligating the offices to accept 890 dinars for new contracts, which include the travel ticket.
Office owners said that the ticket price is currently not less than 150 dinars, at a time when the price of the flight from Manila to Kuwait is 235 dinars, and sometimes 250 dinars, expressing their objection to what they called “abuse of power by the Ministry of Commerce” in dealing with them, and called on the Federation of Employment Offices to solve the problem, citing uncertainty surrounding the issue, according to their claim, and the lack of decisions regulating the recruitment process, after canceling the “safety platform” bore the burden of travel tickets and quarantine cost.
