Sponsors who delay salaries of their domestic staff will be fined KD10 per month of delay, warned the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM).
An extensive media campaign on various platforms has been launched by PAM with the aim of raising awareness among domestic workers about their rights, including that the sponsor has no right to deduct any amount from their salaries.
The PAM campaign also calls on sponsors to treat their household workers with dignity and humanity, and to abide by all relevant laws. It urged sponsors to treat workers with compassion and underlined that workers were entitled to a weekly day off, in addition to an annual vacation.
The campaign also aims to press home the message that sponsors are forbidden to hold the civil ID or passport of their household staff, unless the worker willingly hands it over for safe-keeping.
The Authority also made clear that any dispute between the sponsor and worker should be reported to the department in charge of recruiting domestic workers at PAM, located in Rumaithiya area.
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