Kuwait sets minimum wage for domestic workers
The country becomes the first in the Gulf to regulate the work conditions of domestic staff through legislation.
Kuwait has become the first Gulf Arab country to set a minimum wage for its hundreds of thousands of domestic servants.
A notice published on the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry's website on Thursday listed the minimum salary as 60 Kuwaiti dinars ($198) a month.
Kuwait is the first country in the Gulf to regulate the work conditions of domestic staff through legislation and rights groups have urged others to follow suit to tackle widespread abuses.
The decree, which sets out measures to implement a landmark law adopted by parliament last year, also requires employers to pay overtime for any extra hours worked.
It grants maids the right to a weekly day off, 30 days of annual paid leave, a 12-hour working day with rest, and an end-of-service benefit of one month a year at the end of contract.
The estimated 600,000 domestic servants in Kuwait are among at least 2.4 million working in homes across the Gulf. They are not covered by ordinary labour legislation.
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