UAE shuts down 250 offices for hiring domestic workers

UAE shuts down 250 offices for hiring domestic workers

The UAE's Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) authorities have shut down 250 offices across the country for recruiting domestic workers amid a stringent bid to streamline the hiring of this category of blue-collar employees in the country.

Nasser bin Thani Al Hamli, the Minister of MoHRE, on Tuesday told members of the Federal National Council (FNC) that the ministry closed these recruitment offices in different emirates after their licences had expired. “The move is part of the plan to replace these recruiting offices for domestic workers with ‘Tadbeer' centres,” said Al Hamli.

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The minister was responding to a question from Hamad Ahmed Al Rahoumi, an FNC member from Dubai, on what the ministry has done since the UAE Cabinet transferred the responsibility for domestic workers to MoHRE.

“The Ministry has developed a gradual strategic plan to develop a system for the recruitment of domestic workers based mainly on establishing management service centres as a strategic alternative to recruitment offices. All recruitment offices for domestic workers have been informed about the decision to close their offices upon the expiration of their operating