Bassam Al-Shammari, a specialist in domestic labor affairs says it is complete contrary to what was expected, and after 4 years of confusion, loud slogans, and promises to eliminate the problems of domestic workers, remove the causes of their complaints, and quickly settle their disputes, the decision to transfer the affiliation of this worker from the Ministry of Interior to the protection sector of the Public Authority for Manpower achieved nothing but Kuwait’s classification dropped low and tarnished its reputation with regard to combating the crime of human trafficking, with only two countries monopolizing the market and causing major problems if one of them decided to stop supplying labor, as is currently the case with the Philippines, which contributes 60 percent of our needs.

Al-Shammari said that Kuwait has the best laws in the region to regulate the rights of workers with wide labor benefits, but they remain a dead letter, in light of the deprivation of this worker of their most basic rights by withholding their travel documents (civil card and passport) by their employers in full view of the concerned sector, reports Al-Jarida…