While the Minister of Justice and Minister of State for Integrity Affairs Jamal Al-Jalawi recently discussed with the Ethiopian Minister of Labor Ngusu Gerimanuel the final touches on the draft memorandum of understanding regarding the employment of Ethiopian domestic workers in Kuwait, the specialist in domestic labor affairs Bassam Al-Shamri stressed that the memorandum needs time to sign, and that recruitment takes about 3 months at least,” noting that “one of the terms of the memorandum is the presence of an Ethiopian female translator working in recruitment offices.”
Al-Shammari said, in a statement to a local Arabic daily said, “recruiting the secretary only and printing the residence permit for her takes more than a month,” explaining that “in the event of signing the memorandum of understanding, the first batch of Ethiopian domestic workers will not arrive in Kuwait at least before 4 months, due to the length of time of the documentary cycle.
He added, “90 percent of the cases of escape of domestic workers were due to the unequal salaries between different nationalities,” stressing the need to educate people about the correct way to deal with domestic workers, in order to avoid problems between the two parties.
