Local Affairs Editor
The Bahrain Association for Recruitment Offices held a meeting with the private authorities concerned with the recruitment of domestic workers from the Philippines, to discuss the new requirements imposed by Manila recently, including raising salaries and the requirement to provide a video from inside the sponsor’s house to assess the eligibility of a working recruitment.
The member of the association’s board of directors, Mona Al -Mulla, confirmed that the meeting concluded that these requirements are rejected altogether and in detail, noting that it does not reflect the reality of the labor market and constitute an obstacle to the offices and the applicants alike. She added that the offices in Bahrain and other Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, have taken a similar position to refusal, which means that continuing to implement these conditions will push the offices to go towards other markets and alternative nationalities.
Al -Mulla stressed that the association is working in cooperation with the Labor Market Regulatory Authority to open new channels with exporting countries, to ensure the needs of the Bahraini market and provide qualified competencies that may exceed the Filipino workers, especially in terms of language.
It is noteworthy that the administration of migrant workers in the Philippine Republic addressed the offices of recruitment of domestic workers in a number of Gulf countries, including Bahrain to announce a set of requirements, on top of which was raising the monthly wage price for the Philippine worker between 400 to 500 dollars, conducting periodic medical examinations, and the requirement to conduct mandatory video interviews between the possible house worker and the employer before concluding the contract, and implementing the digital care control system.
