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Domestic
Plight
How Jordanian Laws, Officials,
Employers, and Recruiters Fail Abused Migrant Domestic Workers
September 27, 2011
This 111-page report documents abuses against domestic workers and the
failure of Jordanian officials to hold employers and the agents who
recruited the workers accountable. The report also criticizes Jordanian
immigration and domestic work labor laws for facilitating abuse, such as
confinement in the home and imposing fines for overstaying the legal
residency period, even where the worker is not at fault. Many of the
70,000 migrant domestic workers from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the
Philippines now living in Jordan face the same abuses as migrant
domestic workers elsewhere in the region. These include beatings,
confiscation of passports, confinement to the house, insults,
non-payment of salaries, and overlong working hours with no days off. |