Published: 3 October 2006
MANAMA: Bahrain’s 90 key manpower agencies face a massive legal clampdown in coming days.
The crackdown aims to test agency owners’ commitment to providing decent, safe accommodation for expatriates, said Labour Ministry relations director Shaikh Ali bin Abdulrahman Al Khalifa.
He singled out domestic helpers who remain “at the disposal of these agencies” until they are transferred to their sponsors”.
“Several have been in breach of the law, using locked offices as makeshift night accommodation, endangering people’s safety”, he said.
He also revealed that some agencies flout safety regulations by keeping large numbers of expatriate workers in tiny flats, in total disregard of health requirements.
Published: 3 October 2006
MANAMA: Bahrain’s 90 key manpower agencies face a massive legal clampdown in coming days.
The crackdown aims to test agency owners’ commitment to providing decent, safe accommodation for expatriates, said Labour Ministry relations director Shaikh Ali bin Abdulrahman Al Khalifa.
He singled out domestic helpers who remain “at the disposal of these agencies” until they are transferred to their sponsors”.
“Several have been in breach of the law, using locked offices as makeshift night accommodation, endangering people’s safety”, he said.
He also revealed that some agencies flout safety regulations by keeping large numbers of expatriate workers in tiny flats, in total disregard of health requirements.
While urging commitment to the law 8, issued in 1978, which specifies the health requirements of the expatriates’ accommodation, he also called on private companies, enterprises and manpower agencies to co-operate with the ministry to ensure safety.
© Gulf Daily News
