Any person helping you in your daily house chores is what domestic worker in UAE is. According to the Federal Decree Law No.9 2022, any natural person who is male, female, or other is your domestic worker if you hire them according to the law.
There are a lot of categories and subcategories that can define a person's status as a domestic worker in the UAE. But some of them that are very common are as follows.
The workplace of domestic worker can be anything that the employer owns and they agree to work in that place. It can be a barn, farmland, a villa, an apartment, or an office.
There are domestic worker hiring agencies registered and licensed by the Ministry of Human Resource and Emiratization (MoHRE) in the UAE that have the data and profiles of the workers.
The domestic workers come in three setups i.e. traditional setup where they come and stay with you, temporary setup where they come regularly, do their job, and leave, and the third one is the flexible setup where the workers come on demand according to when and where you need them.
Any person having a UAE residency visa or a permanent resident of the UAE can hire a domestic worker if their monthly family income is more than their needs or at least AED25000. The employers also need to provide those workers who stay with them, the basic healthcare, a comfortable separate place, and a proper working environment.
Another condition is that if you have a monthly family income of at least AED15000 and you have patient-authorized medical healthcare coverage, then you can also hire a house helper.
A basic rule for hiring a domestic worker in the UAE is that you cannot hire on the basis of ethnicity, religion, race, or color from within or outside the UAE. This is to ensure that everyone gets an equal chance to work legally and that basic human rights as well. You cannot abuse your worker verbally or physically at any cost and if you are found doing that in the investigation, you will have to face consequences.
A domestic worker can take paid leave of 30 days with a roundtrip air ticket to their home country every two years if they want it and the employer has to arrange it for them. Also, if the worker is staying with the employer full-time, then they have the right to take a 12-hour rest period in 24 hours. This includes rest stretching up to 8 hours straight and the remaining 4 hours can be flexible. Also, they have the right to take annual paid leave from the employer if they want to. The domestic worker’s passport and all legal documents should be in possession of the worker. Another important thing is that the employer has to pay the worker’s salary within ten days of the payment date.
A natural person who performs a household service for a wage under the direction, supervision, and guidance of his / her employer.
The employer has to pay the worker’s salary within ten days of the payment date. And they have the right to take 12 hours of rest every day including 8 hours of rest straight and the remaining hours can be adjusted according to their agreement.
The average monthly salary for a domestic worker in the UAE is at least AED1500. Also, the employer has to pay some wages in cash ranging from AED26 to AED7000.
The employer has to specify what task they need workers to do and then the workers will have to do that because of their agreement. These tasks generally include house cleaning, doing the dishes, driving, lawn mowing, and taking care of the babies as nannies and elderly people as their nurses.
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