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Kuwait University holds seminar on foreign workers'' rights, duties |
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:26 |
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March 29 (KUNA) -- Kuwait University's Centre for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies organized a seminar on incoming workers' rights and duties here Monday.
Officials of the Kuwaiti ministries of social affairs and labor and interior were present in the seminar.
Addressing the event, Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Mansour Al-Mansour said all workers in Kuwait, be they Kuwaitis or non-Kuwaitis, have rights and duties.
He said the newly passed labor law, which took 10 years to adopt, envisions several advantages to workers in the private sector, including a holiday for pilgrimage and bonus for children.
The private sector has now become as safe as the public one thanks to the new legislation, he added.
For his part, Interior Ministry's Housekeepers Department Chief Colonel Abdullah Al-Ali said the ministry is responsible for incoming labor offices, including licence issuance, inspection and investigation into crimes and all other things pertinent to incoming labor.
Through its service offices sprouting out everywhere in the country, the ministry is seeking to ensure the rights of incoming workers should they be assaulted and to punish them if they break law, he said.
As per the fresh labor law, employees and housekeepers must be given suitable housing, medical treatment, clothes and food, he added. - Kuna
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