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Bahraini incurred more than 700 dinars to obtain a maid and transfer her sponsorship, and after only 5 months of the beginning of her work, the maid asked to travel to her country because of an emergency problem, and she also got an advance of 337 dinars, but she was no longer.
According to lawyer Maryam Matar, she filed a lawsuit before the minor civil court against the maid, as the court ruled that the latter obligate the amount of 287 dinars, the claims of the lawsuit, and for the law fees.
Lawyer Maryam Matar indicated that her client and her claimant brother have contracted with the defendant to work as a domestic worker they have since May 2020 and for a period of two years, and she may have passed to transfer her cash amount of 744 dinars, but on 10-30-2020 she asked the maid to return to her homeland because of a family problem she had, and therefore the two plaintiffs agreed to return to her homeland temporarily to join the work They have later to complete her work.
They stated that the defendant maid borrowed the costs of travel and return by 337 dinars, including the value of travel tickets, Corona examination, etc., but the defendant did not fulfill what she promised, and did not work for the plaintiffs to complete the rest of the contract period.
Lawyer Maryam Matar said that her prosecutor’s clients had damaged them as a result of their incurred cost of transferring her sponsorship to work for them, and the defendant refrained from returning the amount she borrowed to her travel, which led the plaintiffs to establish their lawsuit, and requested that she be obligated to lead them to the value of the loan, and the amounts she incurred to transfer her sponsorship.
The court replied in the reasons for the ruling, saying that the decision is legally stipulated in Article 23/c of Law No. 19 of 2006 to regulate the labor market that “it is prohibited for any person to receive any amounts or obtain any benefit or advantage of the worker in exchange for issuing a work permit on it or in exchange for the use of this worker or its release in his work”, and the claim of the plaintiffs to compel the defendant to pay an amount of 337 dinars for the value of what the last borrowed before traveling to its home The court has an agreement stating that the amount is borrowed, and the defendant pledged to pay it, and the fixed court was to pay the defendant an amount of 50 dinars out of the total value of the loan.
The court sentenced the defendant to perform the amount of 287 dinars, the expenses, and in exchange for the law fees.
