Recommendations

Kuwait Society for Human Rights praises the positive steps taken to protect the rights of workers in the State of Kuwait and makes the following recommendations:

1. To abolish and replace the sponsorship system, which restricts each worker to an employer as his guarantor, by a system that safeguards rights for all.

2. To provide interpreters who can speak the main languages spoken by migrant workers in the Department of Labor Relations and their branches in the provinces.

3. To follow unified principles in the investigation and conduction of the complaints submitted to the Public Authority for Labor Force by workers against employers, especially in complaints of cancellation and transfer.

4. To enforce labor laws and their implementing decisions with a view to providing greater protection to migrant workers, including domestic workers, through inspection, followup, investigation and referral mechanisms.

5. To enforce Law no. 912013/ on human trafficking and smuggling of migrants, to double investigative and prosecutorial efforts and to emphasize punishment for perpetrators of human trafficking offenses.

6. To double efforts to raise awareness of all forms of human trafficking, in particular domestic servitude, forced labor and sexual exploitation.

7. To suspend the decisions that obstruct the entitlement of migrant workers in government agencies for their labor rights such as the end of service benefits, only after the termination of their residences and the notification of leaving the country.

8. To ensure decent work for all workers, especially domestic workers.

9. To prepare studies and research on the scope of human trafficking in all its forms, causes and consequences.

10. To abolish administrative deportation and activate the role of the judiciary as the competent authority on the issue of deportation and provide the necessary guarantees as the right of appeal.