Hassan Al -Sitry
The Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry rejected the proposal by amending Paragraph A of Article 25 of Law No. 19 of 2006 regarding the regulation of the labor market, and it includes not to allow the transfer of home service work permits to other work permits, so that the worker remains in the home service, or moves to work in another house, or leaves the country, and his work permit cannot be transferred to any other permit outside the scope of household service.
The Chamber indicated that the proposal of the law related to limiting the proposed text to the category of home service only carries negative effects on the labor market, as shortening the right to move to other jobs to a certain category of employment may lead to reducing the flexibility of the labor market, and limits the transmission of employment between the sectors, which leads to discrimination and inequality in the treatment of foreign workers between different groups and professions.
The “Chamber” emphasizes that the article currently in force came in the formulation of a balanced and fair labor rules that are characterized by the necessary flexibility to keep pace with the needs of the labor market, in a way that achieves a balance between workers ’rights and the interests of employers, in a way that does not violate the punitive texts, and contributes to enhancing the stability and sustainability of the national economy, and the Chamber saw the need to start working on the recommendations and proposals that came in the paper prepared between the joint team between the joint team The Shura and Representatives Council, and the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry on organizing the labor market.
The General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions expressed its lack of support for the proposal, because there is no justification for excluding domestic workers and not other workers in applying the provisions of the Labor Market Regulatory Law, and believes that keeping domestic workers within the limits of the permit given without the possibility of changing it, may be an obstacle for other citizens or others to employ the home worker. The Labor Market Regulatory Authority emphasized that the desired purpose of the proposal is a lawful law in accordance with the practical reality and the procedures in force in the matter of domestic workers in the Kingdom and their failure to move from one employer to another during the validity of the validity of the work permit issued in this regard, and she explained that in the event of enforcement and flow of the proposed text he will restrict the fate of the foreign worker who worked as a domestic worker to work within the category of domestic workers, and from their rule only, It is achieved in accordance with the provisions of Article (25) of the above law and the decision of the Board of Directors of the Board of Directors implementing its provisions No. (79) for the year 2009 regarding the procedures for the transfer of the foreign worker to another employer, as the procedures in force in the practical and procedural reality cannot be applied regarding domestic workers during the validity of the work permits issued on them according to the nature of their work and the place of their work in the homes of employers, while the text is the subject of the proposed amendment regulates the exercise of the right to transfer The foreign worker from one employer to another during the validity of the work permit after the expiration of the first year in the validity of the work permit and his work with the employer as a time restriction to practice that right, without prejudice to the right of the worker to change the nature of his work and his profession for employment in the commercial sector only.
