[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Govt Doing Little to Protect Us From Abusive Maids, Employers Say
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Saturday, 8, July, 2006 (12, Jumada al-Thani, 1427)
Govt Doing Little to Protect Us From Abusive Maids, Employers Say
Arab News
JEDDAH, 8 July 2006 - Cases of Asian maids running away and leaving their
employers in desperate situations seem to be a growing phenomenon. We tend to
hear many cases of maids being abused by their employers but at the same time
there are multiple cases of families themselves being abused and treated
inappropriately by their maids.
Recently, having only been in the Kingdom for two days an Asian maid ran
away from her sponsor's home. In another case one maid demanded her employers
send her back to her home country saying working, as a maid, was not befitting
her and in a third case a maid left her sponsor's house at a critical time when
the lady of the house had given birth just a few days earlier.
According to Al-Watan newspaper, many Saudis complain that the Ministry
of Labor is doing very little to protect their rights as more and more maids
run away. Employers say that they end up losing considerable amounts of money
when the housemaids flee and are never compensated. It seems that as soon as
the workload increases and maids are asked to rub some extra elbow grease into
their work then the women bail out and abort ship.
In his search for a suitable trustworthy, polite and hardworking maid,
Rashed Abdul Rahman went abroad with his family. He thought he could find a
maid and also have a short break away from home. While on holiday they met a
potential housemaid who they employed for a month to see how she worked. Rashed
and his family found the woman well behaved, hard working and displaying good
manners but as soon as the family brought the woman to Riyadh she vanished into
thin air.
Rashed was left heartbroken and upset. "She tricked us, she had it all
planned," he said.
A short time later the family received a call from the police saying that
the maid had been caught in Jeddah working as a housemaid in an illegal network
involving other runaway Asian housemaids. It turned out that the ringleader was
a man for whom the maid had worked in a brief stint a while ago.
In a similar case, Muna Sulaiman, a working woman and mother of a
three-year-old, complained of her housemaid who ran away a week after her
brother's maid disappeared leaving her in a desperate situation of having to
juggle household chores with work and children.
One Saudi mother, called Um Abdullah, said one day she found her
four-month-old daughter's head swollen and noticed the baby was having problems
breathing.
Um Abdullah and her husband became worried. They took the baby to
hospital to be told by a doctor that the girl had been hit in the head. Um
Abdullah's husband was furious and rushed home to reprimand the maid only to
find that she was missing.
Many maids enter the Kingdom legally and then run away to work in
lucrative illegal networks to be paid up to SR1,200 a month.
Fawzieh Al-Bakr, a lecturer at King Saud University in Riyadh, said the
phenomenon of housemaids running away is dangerous to the community, government
and security resources. Fawzieh believes there is a sinister network behind the
phenomenon of maids running away. She says that three years ago she herself was
put in a difficult situation when her maid ran away.
The Ministry of Social Affairs and police deal with the responsibility of
runaway maids at the Center for Maids Affairs. The center employs receptionists
to follow up complaints and a number of female workers supervise detained maids
and ensure the women are given food and shelter.
Most runaway maids are deported after all fines and payments that maids
are responsible for are paid in full. However, many employers complain that
they are never compensated for the financial losses they incur in bringing
maids into the Kingdom.
According to the ministry most maids that the center deals with are women
who have fled within their first three months in the Kingdom. Many of the maids
complain that the living standards are poor in their sponsors' home; some claim
they have been mistreated and others say they are not paid regularly.
With maids running away and many Saudis having to face the brunt of
financial losses it is perhaps time the government did something to maintain
the rights of Saudi employers who are abused by their dishonest maids.
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