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Article

14 Dec 2015

Author:
Edwin Mutai, Business Daily (Kenya)

Kenya: Employment agencies allowed to recruit domestic workers to Saudi Arabia despite alleged harsh working conditions

"MPs plan safe haven for Kenyan workers in Saudi"

Parliament wants the Treasury to set up a fund whose proceeds will be used to rescue Kenyan migrant workers stranded in the Middle East. The money should be used to establish a safe haven with the mandate of rescuing and securing migrant workers who are suffering ill-treatment by their Middle East employers, the MPs said in a report tabled in Parliament last week...

The committee, however, declined to adopt Foreign Affairs secretary Amina Mohamed’s recommendations imposing a total ban on the export of domestic workers she argues are subjected to deplorable working conditions, human rights violations, exploitation and abuse at the workplace. Instead, the committee chaired by Matungu MP David Were dispatched a team to Saudi Arabia to study the administration of foreign employment and management of labour migration in the wake of numerous reports of abuse of Kenyan skilled and unskilled workers.