“Kuwait shuts labour recruitment offices for violations”

…Kuwaiti authorities have shut down five offices operating in the recruitment of overseas domestic workers after they were found to have infringed regulations.

The closures of the offices located in the coastal governorate of Hawali came after the violations had been detected by monitoring teams from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

The ministry said the main violations included failure to use electronic payment methods and ignoring the prices set for recruitment…

The ministry pledged to go ahead with “intense” monitoring campaigns across the country to verify recruitment agencies’ compliance with laws and regulations to offer high-quality services…

Kuwait has recently suffered from a shortage of domestic workers partially due to a ban on labourers from the Philippines…earlier this week, Kuwait lifted a visa ban on domestic workers from the Philippines…

In January, Kuwait set maximum fees for recruiting overseas domestic workers. Accordingly, price caps of hiring workers from Asian countries were set at KD750 (about Dh9,000), and from African countries at KD575…