Tougher Rules For Hiring Sri Lankan Maids In Uae

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Many people come to the UAE to work as domestic workers due to better pay and life. However, there have been cases where these domestic helpers are not given proper pay and are overworked and exploited by maid agency Dubai. Some of these maids who come to the UAE are Sri Lankans.
The Sri Lankan government has set up stringent rules and a fixed minimum salary for hiring house helpers in the UAE.
The employers have been asked to compulsorily provide food, decent separate sleeping quarters, health insurance and a return air ticket. The employers are also supposed to pay a security deposit of US$1000 (Dh 3672).
The minimum salary to be paid and security deposit differs from country to country.
The first secretary of labor at the Sri Lankan Embassy, MEG Samaraweera says that they are not going to accept any applications which follow these conditions to hire domestic workers from Sri Lanka.
The consulate in Dubai receives about 50 applications per day for domestic workers while the mission gets about 25 applications per day. The number of Sri Lankans living in ...
... the UAE has increased over the years. There are 300,000 Sri Lankans living in the UAE currently compared to 50,000 more than 10 years ago.
Mr. Samaraweera also said that domestic workers who come to the UAE without the backing of an agency are time and again taken advantage of. He stresses that taking help of the embassy’s services and utilizing approved maid agency in Dubai surges their likelihood of success. There are about 74 Dubai maid agency for house helpers in the UAE that are registered with the mission. Out of these 35 employ on a regular basis.
Every month more than 2000 Sri Lankans come to the UAE to work. Most of these people are unskilled. However, the government is making every effort to substitute these workers with skilled and semi-skilled workers. Various vocational training programs to enhance skills have been introduced to groom workers for foreign jobs.
The sponsors can get their deposits refunded as soon as they cancel employees’ visas. Mr. Samaraweera said that the mission will not favor any application if the sponsors fall short of providing a separate room for the house helpers and will impose a minimum salary of Dh10,000.
According to the mission, there are 45 housemaids in sheltered houses and 10 at the embassy who have had problems with their sponsors. They are being protected while waiting problems to be solved and then sent back home.