The specialist in domestic labor affairs, Bassam Al-Shammari, has called on the ministries of Health and Interior, in addition to the Public Authority for Manpower and the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation, to cancel the requirement to attach the Corona vaccination certificate for workers recruited from abroad, saying this condition no longer makes sense in light of the recent decisions issued by the Council of Ministers, and DGCA issuing a decision to allow expatriate workers and passengers, who are not vaccinated, to enter the country.
Al-Shammari told Al-Jarida, “in conjunction with the stabilization of the health situation in the country, and the beginning of the fourth wave of the spread of the epidemic, and amid the successive decisions recently taken by the Council of Ministers in order to return to normal life and ease restrictions imposed on travel, recruitment of workers and gatherings, it became necessary to cancel The aforementioned condition, especially as it was considered the most prominent obstacle to recruiting workers in the private and domestic sectors.
He stated that there is a noticeable decline in the number of infections among domestic workers who arrive in the country, especially amid the tightening of health procedures in their respective countries before they are allowed to leave, in addition to the stabilization of the health situation there, considering that all these positive indicators pave the way for the return of the normal procedures (just like it was before the outbreak of the pandemic) for the recruitment of household workers.
Al-Shammari called on the DGCA to activate the circular it issued recently and to cancel the institutional quarantine imposed on newly recruited domestic workers, and hand them over to their employers upon their arrival in the country, in addition to lifting the quarantine on workers who entered Kuwait last week, that is, before the aforementioned circular came into effect.
