Offices attract families with “escape insurance” offers

Housewives offer facilities for domestic workers to ensure that they continue to work

• It must be ensured that the previous support worker sponsorship is canceled before she is transferred to another family.

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• Housewives: Introducing the principle of insurance against the flight of domestic workers contributes to protecting the rights of families.

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«Emirates Today» monitored advertisements for recruitment offices of auxiliary workers, during which it offers offers that include a comprehensive guarantee for the escape of domestic workers, explaining that the contract includes a one-week trial with a two-year guarantee that includes “refusal to work, diseases and escape”, while housewives confirmed that there are a number of criteria that It is followed to select domestic servants, while some of them mentioned that they resort to providing facilities and benefits to maids, to ensure their loyalty as long as possible and to ensure that they do not escape.

And two jurists stated that the Federal Law on Domestic Workers stressed that there should be no tolerance in helping the “assisting worker” to escape, exploiting, harboring or employing them illegally, with the penalty of deportation from the state, because of the danger it poses to society.

In detail, offices for the employment of domestic workers sent advertisements to families via social media (WhatsApp and Facebook), through which they offer a comprehensive guarantee of escape for domestic maids, explaining that the contract includes a one-week trial with a two-year guarantee in the contract that includes refusal to work, diseases and escape.

The housewife, Rehab Muhammad, said that, in her choice of maid, she must be of a specific nationality, most of whom are very loyal in all matters of the home, noting that she entrusted them with tasks related to cleaning the house and caring for children.

She stressed that introducing the principle of insurance against the escape of maids contributes to protecting the rights of families that use such workers, especially since a large number of them are damaged due to repeated escape incidents.

While Hana Saeed explained that the basis for her in choosing a maid is due to the mechanism of her operation from the beginning, as she relied on the principle of bringing her on her own residence, so as to guarantee her the continuation of the maid to work for the duration of the contract.

Umm Abdullah stated that she offers advantages to the maids who work for her related to travel tickets if she is on her residence, as well as rewards from time to time, as well as specifying her tasks before working with her without exceeding that item with any additional tasks, to ensure that the maid continues as long as possible, noting that The principle of insurance against escape, which was put forward by the support labor offices, helps families affected by escape.

Mona Mahmoud considered that insurance against the escape of maids is a positive thing from the auxiliary labor offices, especially since she has already suffered from the escape of two maids before due to greater financial offers, which puts the offices under their responsibilities regarding the supervision of the work of this category.

Fatima Naji confirmed that there are main reasons for the flight of maids, which are the failure to determine the nature of the maid’s work, the degree of qualification of the maid for the work she performs or not, the many working hours, the lack of determining the pattern of work, the absence of periodic leave, in addition to the low salary compared to the nature of the work She explained that in order to avoid this matter, she identified the tasks of the maid who works for her and is consistent in giving her due periodic leave, in addition to providing her with benefits with every occasion.

For his part, lawyer and legal advisor Ayham Al-Maghraby said that controversy is often raised about domestic workers and the spread of rumors about maids escaping from the employer’s home for a legitimate or illegal reason, and many people are ignorant of how to act in such situations, and to avoid such situations, the Nationality and Residence Prosecution was launched In Dubai, an initiative called “Awad Me”, as the initiative explained that many families are lazy in informing the concerned authorities about the state of labor flight, while the flight of labor incurs the family who brought them and whose sponsorship recorded severe financial losses, as families most likely do not know that the initiative compensates them with 10,000 Dirhams if the runaway maid who is registered on her sponsorship with another family is caught, stressing that forgetfulness or neglect does not absolve her of responsibility.

Al-Maghraby continued: “Federal Law No. 10 of 2017 regulates the work of auxiliary workers or the support service as the law called it, as the law is flexible and anyone close to the sponsor can report immediately instead of the sponsor about the escape of workers, a process that is easily done by phone at the number 8005111, as well as In the event of canceling the residency of any worker and returning to the employment office, the employer must follow up on her case and make sure that her previous sponsorship has expired before she is transferred to another family, so that the first sponsor is not surprised by a fine of 50 thousand dirhams without knowing, because some employment offices do not care about making sure that the expiry The guarantee before it is transferred, as a result of laziness and ignorance.”

He continued: «The law emphasized the necessity of reporting in the event of the flight of the assistant worker, explaining this in Article (17) where it stated: (The employer must inform the Ministry within five days of the worker’s absence from work without a legitimate reason, and the worker must inform the Ministry within 48 hours of leaving work without the knowledge of the employer).

The legal researcher, Dr. Mohsen Muhammad Al-Khbani, said that with regard to the obligations of recruitment agencies, the Federal Law regarding domestic workers stipulated in paragraph (4c) of Article (4) of it, that recruitment agencies bear the expenses of returning the worker to his country in addition to providing an alternative for him. Without incurring any additional expenses for the employer, or refunding all amounts paid by the employer - at the latter's choice - if it appears, or occurs, that the worker left the work, in other than the authorized cases, as indicated in the executive regulations of this law during the aforementioned probationary period In Article (9) of this law.

He added: “In the event that the recruitment office violates this provision and the provisions contained in Article Four, as confirmed by Article (30) of this law and without prejudice to any harsher penalty stipulated in any other law, the recruitment office shall be punished with a fine of not less than 50 thousand dirhams and not more than 100,000 dirhams, and the penalty is doubled in the event of recurrence of this act within one year from the date of the sentence.”

And he continued: «On the same side, Article (10) of the same law confirmed that the recruitment office is obliged to return to the employer the full sums that the latter paid to the office, or part of them, as determined by the executive regulations of this law in any of the following two cases: The first is that the worker terminates the contract after the probationary period, without a reason due to the employer, and the second is that the worker quits after the probationary period without an acceptable reason.”

Housewives: “Not specifying the nature of work and the long working hours;

One of the reasons for the flight of maids.

Two legal: The law stressed not to be lenient in helping the (assisting worker) to escape or exploit it.

Families are lazy in informing the concerned authorities of the case of the flight of workers, which incurs material losses.

packages

The auxiliary labor recruitment offices have three packages for the recruitment and employment of auxiliary service workers, which are:

■ The traditional package: the service of recruiting an assistant worker from outside the country, who is registered on the employer's file and resides with him during the contract period.

■ Temporary Package: The service of providing an assistant worker registered with the recruitment office to work for a contractual period during which the worker is not allowed to move as an assistant worker residing with the employer.

Flexible package: The service of providing an assistant worker registered with the recruitment office to work in a flexible system (hours - days - month - 6 months - year).

3 cases allow replacement

“Emirates Today” contacted one of the labor recruitment offices, and he stated that if the client monitors any of the three cases, namely refusal to work, diseases and escape, the maid can be replaced without any fees during the work period, provided that the option to try for a week is available before the contract is considered effective. .

The office stated that the fees for operating female workers ranged between 11 and 13 thousand dirhams annually for the office, while the cost of operating a female worker ranged from 1200 to 1500 dirhams per month, depending on the nationality, pointing out that it offered a two-year insurance offer to the maids.

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