Kuwait sets minimum wage for maids in first for Gulf | Daily Mail Online Home U.K. U.S. News World News Sport TV&Showbiz Femail Health Science Weather Video Travel Fashion Finder Wires Home Login Kuwait sets minimum wage for maids in Site Web first for Gulf Like Follow DailyMail MailOnline By AFP Follow +1 PUBLISHED: 21:06 +10:00, 14 July 2016 | UPDATED: 21:07 +10:00, 14 July 2016 DailyMail DailyMail 67 DON'T MISS shares 'It wasn't an easy first month': Kristina Kuwait has set a minimum wage for its hundreds of thousands of mostly Asian domestic workers, in Rihanoff admits the a first for Gulf states which have come under widespread accusations of abuse. struggles of A decree issued by Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Sabah set the minimum wage at motherhood get her 60 dinars ($200) a month and also granted domestic staff a raft of other rights, Al-Anbaa newspaper down... but partner Ben reported on Thursday. 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Hilaria and Alec Baldwin welcome their Journalists attend a press conference in Kuwait City on the abuse of domestic workers third child together ©Yasser Al-Zayyat (AFP/File) Hilaria Baldwin has introduced the world to her third child The decree, which sets out measures to implement a landmark law adopted by parliament last year, also requires employers to pay overtime for any extra hours worked. Have you ever thought It grants domestic workers the right to a weekly day off, 30 days of annual paid leave, a 12-hour supermarket seafood working day with rest, and an end-of-service benefit of one month a year at the end of contract. must be dodgy? One doubtful shopper did The estimated 600,000 maids in Kuwait are among at least 2.4 million working at homes across the and Lidl took him to Gulf. They are not covered by ordinary labour legislation. Scotland to prove him wrong! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3689791/Kuwait-sets-minimum-wage-maids-Gulf.html[13/09/2016 2:37:09 PM] Kuwait sets minimum wage for maids in first for Gulf | Daily Mail Online HRW and other groups have documented widespread abuses, including non-payment of wages, long SPONSORED working hours with no rest days, physical and sexual assault, and no clear channels for redress. In its 2016 Trafficking in Persons report, the US State Department upgraded Kuwait from tier 3, the Kendall Jenner oozes worst level, to tier 2 while keeping it on watch list, citing an improvement in its treatment of migrant old Hollywood glamour workers, including maids. in stunning all white ensemble and bright red The report places the other five Gulf Arab states -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and lipstick United Arab Emirates -- at the same level as Kuwait. Tturning heads since New York Fashion Week - 'Forced labour' - It moved Oman to watch list after reports of abuses. A cut above! Ireland Baldwin shows off new HRW warned on Wednesday that many foreign domestic workers in Oman are trapped in abusive lob as she flaunts her employment and urged the sultanate to reform its "restrictive" immigration system. legs in short skirt at The New York-based watchdog said that some of the 59 domestic workers it interviewed described Sherri Hill NYFW "abuses that amounted to forced labour or trafficking." runway show Its report documented how Oman's visa sponsorship system for workers, known in Gulf countries as Dragons' Den star kafala, and the lack of labour law protection, leave migrant domestic workers "exposed to abuse and Sarah Willingham takes exploitation." her children out of HRW has repeatedly urged Gulf states to reform their labour laws to cover domestic workers and school for a year to go provide them with "equal protections" available to other workers, and to revise the kafala system. round the world as motherhood is more The kafala system, or sponsorship, has been criticised as a form of bonded labour or even slavery. important than It restricts most workers from moving to a new job before their contracts end unless their employers business agree, trapping many of them. Netflix and chill: Gaz In November 2014, Gulf and Asian labour ministers agreed on a series of initiatives aimed at Beadle shares very racy boosting protection and improving conditions of employment for foreign workers in the Gulf. snap of his girlfriend Emma McVey wearing Ahead of the conference, GCC labour ministers agreed on minimum terms in the contracts of nothing but a thong domestic staff to improve their working conditions. while sitting between The terms included entitling domestic workers to a weekly day off, annual leave and the right to live his legs outside their employer's house. 'It's BIRMINGHAM!' The contract was also to limit the working day to eight hours. Twitter erupts over geographical gaffe after Bahrain reformed its labour law to extend some benefits to maids, while Saudi Arabia issued a Cold Feet character decision last year limiting the hours worked by domestic staff to a maximum of 15 per day and calls Manchester granting one month's leave after two years of service. Britain's second largest Most of those regulations, however, lack enforcement and have not been successful in halting abuse city against domestic staff, human rights group say. 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