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Arabia

Saudi bans Indonesian, Filipina housemaids

2011-06-30

[Emirates 24/7] The front man for Soddy Arabia's Labor Ministry says the kingdom will no longer issue work permits for ~~nubile young~~ domestic workers from Indonesia and the Philippines after new hiring guidelines laid out by those nations.

Khatab Al Atiry said Wednesday the decision would be effective July 2.

Indonesia said on June 22 it would not send domestic workers to Soddy Arabia until Riyadh signs a deal on migrant worker protection. The moratorium followed the execution days earlier of an Indonesian maid convicted of murdering her Saudi employer's wife.

Indonesian officials complained they were not informed before the execution.

Millions of foreign workers live in the kingdom, and rights and labor groups say domestic workers and laborers are poorly paid and subjected to abuse.

Posted by:Fred

#11 Patience Frank - it takes hours of careful study to notice it....

Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-06-30 22:04

#10 Wait....what?

sweeping?

Posted by: Frank G 2011-06-30 20:32

#9 Am I the only one to notice the maid (in the pic) seems to be sweeping the dirt under the rug?

Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-06-30 20:20

#8 Wouldn't want the poor buggers to have to pick their own socks.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-06-30 19:38

#7 Yes EU, but the Pakis get a better deal for not working in places like England.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-06-30 18:17

#6 But they can still get Pakis, right?

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-06-30 11:48

#5 The trouble is that these two countries almost have a lock on Muslim workers who aren't lower order primates.

Based on my experience, there's more non-muslim expat workers than there are muslims - at least in the non-domestic fields.

Posted by: Pappy 2011-06-30 11:25

#4 This should be entertaining. Slaveholders become so reliant on their slaves that they go into withdrawl when deprived of them. They don't know how to pick up their own dirty under drawers, much less how to launder them, which they believe is "beneath their station", anyway.

So they will begin whining and biatching to the government in short order. The trouble is that these two countries almost have a lock on Muslim workers who aren't lower order primates.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-06-30 10:29

#3 So, basically, the Indonesian and Philippine governments said "if you want to hire our citizens, you must agree to treat them like human beings", and the Saudis responded by banning any workers from those countries?

Clarifying moment, isn't it?

Posted by: Rob Crawford 2011-06-30 09:35

#2 Foreign workers (of both genders I would guess) are subject to rape by their employers - with no recourse - after all it takes 4 eye witnesses to convict a Muslim man of rape.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-06-30 00:50

#1 In essence, shutting down what has become a slave market.

Posted by: newc 2011-06-30 00:31

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