Controls to Improve the Contractual Relationship of Domestic Workers and their Equivalents

The following words and phrases, wherever mentioned in these controls, are meant by the meanings shown beside each of them unless otherwise required by the context:

The Ministry: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.

The Competent Sector: The executive general supervision of domestic workers in the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.

Domestic Employer: Any person of a normal nature who has recruited the domestic worker themself, or through a licensed recruitment office or contracted them, directly or indirectly, to perform a domestic service.

Domestic Worker: Any person of a normal nature performing a direct or indirect domestic service to the employer, or any of their family members, being under the supervision and instruction of the employer or those in their place, such as a female/male domestic worker, private driver, gardener, or a housekeeper and their equivalents. The phrase ‘domestic service worker’ means the domestic worker and their equivalent when used in this regulation.

The Company: A company licensed to practice the activities governed by the provisions of “the rules of practicing the recruitment activity and providing labor services”

Both Parties: Employer (person, institution), domestic worker.

Committee: The committee provided for in the regulation of domestic workers and their equivalents.