How the law works
Legal prohibitions Employment of any individual under the age of 18 Exposure to physical harm’ are Assignment of tasks that covered under the contract. not Regulation of agencies or legal Only UAE-registered natural may recruit persons with good standing UAE. An domestic workers to the own or through agency may not, on its from a third party, solicit or accept to or after any worker, whether prior of commission employment, any form in exchange for employment. the In the event of early termination, the worker at agency must repatriate offer the employer its expense and either worker an acceptable substitute the fee he/ or return to the employer she had paid. times treat the The agency must at all from exposing worker decently and refrain of violence. him/her to any form whose services New centres called Tadbeer, the ministry, will be regulated by recruitment will replace domestic worker of 2017. agencies by the end proper These centres will guarantee for the visa, orientation and training workers. Categories of domestic workers the domestic The new professions under for households, helpers’ category (only are: housemaid, not companies) and security private sailor, watchman family guard, household shepherd, groomer, chauffeur, household horse and trainer, household falcon carer private domestic labourer, housekeeper, babysitter, coach, private teacher, nurse, private household farmer, private engineer. PRO and private agriculture