Here is a piece from Arab News about the establishment of new recruitment companies to facilitate the importation of Moroccan women to work as maids in Saudi Arabia.
Anyone familiar with the general treatment maids receive in Saudi and the way Saudis view Moroccan women will find little to feel encouraged about with this new development. Let us pray that the women will actually be treated humanely and not forced into other less honorable professions.
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Moroccan maids on their way
By ARAB NEWS
Published: Sep 9, 2011 22:22 Updated: Sep 9, 2011 22:22
RIYADH: The recruitment companies that are to be established soon will be licensed to bring in housemaids from Morocco, East Asia and South Africa, Al-Watan Arabic newspaper reported Friday quoting Saad Al-Baddah, chairman of the recruitment committee at the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
Al-Baddah added a caveat to the recruitment process of housemaids from Morocco saying that immediate employment of Moroccan maids could prove an issue as there were no official recruitment offices in Morocco to process the papers of prospective domestic helps.
He, however, said there could be a way around the problem with the citizens being given work visas to bring housemaids from Morocco on their own.
The chairman warned Saudi citizens against contacting any offices claiming to be able to send housemaids from Morocco to the Kingdom.
“They are all fake. You should not heed the false claims of these fake offices,” Al-Baddah warned prospective employers.
The spokesman of the Labor Ministry, Hattab Al-Anzi, said the recruitment offices would grant citizens work visas for housemaids from Morocco.
“It is now the responsibility of the citizen to look for authorized private recruitment offices to bring workers from Morocco,” he said.
The spokesman said the new recruitment companies to be established soon would be licensed to import housemaids from Morocco.
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