MP Propose ‘exit permits’ for domestic workers

Parliamentarian Majed Al-Mutairi has presented another proposal to prohibit domestic workers from traveling unless they obtain permission from their sponsors.

The lawmaker also pointed out that once a domestic worker is reported absconding or arrested, a thorough investigation must be carried out immediately to determine their whereabouts, the persons who harbored them and oblige these persons to pay for the sponsors’ expenses in hiring the workers including their air tickets.

Earlier last week, MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei proposed imposing exit visas for expatriates working in the private sector to be able to leave the country. According to his proposal, expatriates working in the private sector must obtain a special permit from the public manpower authority to be able to leave the country.