The UAE is considering altering job contracts for expatriate domestic workers after labour exporting countries expressed reservation on the existing one, a senior immigration official was quoted on Thursday as saying.
Major Mohammed Salim Humaid, director of the information and follow-up division at Sharjah’s general administration for residency and foreigners’ affairs, said the federal interior ministry is studying amendments to the new contract issued in June following complaints by maid hiring agencies that the Philippines and other Asian countries are blocking their operations following the issuance of the new contract.
“We have received complaints from hiring agencies that they are facing difficulties in getting domestic workers from the Philippines and other labour exporting countries, which have expressed some reservations on the new job contract,” he was quoted by Emarat Al Youm daily as saying during a meeting in Sharjah with hiring agents.
“The interior ministry is now studying the new job contract issued in June and the possibility of amending it to meet the needs of all parties.”
Emarat Al Youm said agents complained during the meeting that they have been forced to shut most of their offices in the Philippines following the issuance of that contract.
“Major Humaid suggested that the agents seek other markets to get domestic workers but they refused on the grounds the Filipina maids are the most favoured in the UAE because they are more educated and qualified, can speak better English and they cause less trouble that all other maids,” the paper said.
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UAE may alter Filipina maids' job contract
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