Qatari Ministry begins clampdown on erring recruitment firms
The Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs has started a crackdown on manpower agencies violating recruitment rules, The Peninsula reported.
The Recruitment Department at the Ministry has permanently cancelled the licences of two recruitment agencies.
The aim of the inspection campaign is to improve the performance, follow-up and control of recruitment agencies, and to ensure that manpower agencies comply with recruitment law.
The law says that licence of manpower agencies can be permanently or temporarily revoked by a ministerial decision for repeated violation of the recruitment contract signed by employer and the agency.
The Department said in a statement yesterday that the two agencies violated the fourth paragraph of Article (14) of the Ministerial Decree No (8) of 2005 regulating the conditions and procedures for licensing recruiting workers from abroad for others.
The Department had already warned the two agencies to bring them to adhere to the contracts signed with employers to recruit domestic workers.
The department urged people having financial claims against these agencies to appear before it with needed documents within three months.
The Department carries out periodic and surprise inspections of agencies recruiting domestic workers. The Recruitment Department is responsible for supervising manpower recruitment agency’s licences, their activities, complaints against them and resolving the issues between agencies and their customers.
The Department urged employers, who have signed contracts with these manpower agencies to ratify the recruitment contract of the domestic workers by Recruitment Department of the Ministry.
Earlier the meeting of committee regulating manpower agencies recommended to establish committee including representatives of the manpower agencies to set up mechanism to help to ease recruitment of domestic workers from abroad.
The committee regulating manpower agencies at Qatar Chamber also discussed the possibility of ratifying work contract of the worker in their home country to avoid change in contracts.
Courtesy: thepeninsulaqatar.com
Thanks for the clarification
Now they should continue. For sure there are more criminal recruitment agencies in Qatar.
The two firms were previously warned to adhere to the agreements they signed with employers to recruit domestic workers.
However, they refused to comply, the ministry said in a statement.
Anyone who did business with the companies should have their contracts checked with the labor ministry’s recruitment department.
And financial claims against the two agencies should be reported to the ministry within three months, the Peninsula added.
The companies, Al-Fadeela and Al-Wafa, have had their operating licenses permanently revoked, the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor & Social Affairs (MADSLA) said on QNA.
The typical useless information!
T"he department urged people having financial claims against these agencies to appear before it with needed documents within three months.."
If you name the agencies , then those wishing to claim would have better information