KUWAIT: National Assembly Secretary MP Kamel Al-Awadhi has stated that the government is yet to approve the setting up of a company to bring in domestic help despite the fact that the cabinet had approved the establishment of such a company last year and had asked the investment public authority to prepare an economic feasibility report on it.
He pointed out that the government, for undisclosed reasons, stalled the project without considering the negative impact of rising domestic help problems facing the country. "Because the government ignored this issue, I, along with MPs Safaa Al- Hashim, Khalil Abdallah, Yacoub Al-Sane and Massoums Al-Mubarak submitted a proposed law to establish a shareholding company to bring in and employ domestic help, which was sent to the legislative committee for discussion," Al-Awadhi explained.
While the Interior Ministry is intensifying its campaigns to arrest those violating Iqama norms, it is facing hurdles as it ran out of Iqama stickers. Business owners said the immigration departments in Shuwaikh and Farwaniya did not have the required stamps and were asking mandoubs of companies to return after two weeks, a development that will leave vulnerable those whose Iqamas have expired.
© Kuwait Times 2013
