Recruiters hiring Filipinas as housemaids face tough criteria

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• Foreign placement agencies in the UAE looking to hire Filipino housemaids for employers in Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Umm Al Quwain and Ras Al Khaimah will only be able to do so if their track record is “clean”, Philippine labour attache Delmer Cruz told Gulf News

Dubai: Foreign placement agencies in the UAE looking to hire Filipino housemaids for employers in Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Umm Al Quwain and Ras Al Khaimah will only be able to do so if their track record is “clean”, Philippine labour attache Delmer Cruz told Gulf News.

Cruz said his office has prepared a new watch list detailing the track record of more than 80 placement agencies operating in the UAE between January and August this year. Of the 80 recruiters, 45 were found to have been lax on regulations or had cases of runaway maids.

All the 45 erring agencies were ranked according to the severity of violations and the 15 agencies held responsible for the most number of runaways are being closely monitored.