KUWAIT CITY, Aug 13: In an ongoing fight against people trafficking in human beings the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Dr Mohammed Al-Afasi has issued decisions to regulate work in the private sector, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
According to decision No 141/2010 a telephone line has been allocated to receive complaints from employees in the private sector. The telephone number is 128.
The minister also issued another decision under No.143/A/2010 which forbids companies to hold passports of workers in the private sector and the oil sector. Article 141 of Law No 6/2010 states employers who do not abide by the decision within a period of three months the company will be fined not less than KD 100 and not more than KD 200 for each passport held by the company.
In case the employer commits the violation for a second time within three years the penalty will be doubled.
The third decision bearing No.142/A/2010 obligates every employer in the private sector to provide a first aid box containing medicines, bandages and antiseptics.
Meanwhile, “the Ministry of Interior will strongly and vigorously confront beggars who are indulging in this illegal activity during the holy month of Ramadan and other religious occasions,” says Director of Information Security Department at the Ministry of Interior, Brigadier Mohammed Hashim Al-Sabri, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.
He disclosed in just a couple of days of Ramadan 16 beggars were caught red-handed for begging. Eleven of them are Asians, two Arabs and three non-Kuwaiti women.
He added that 13 of those arrested entered the country of visit visas. The occupation of two of them shows ‘director’ and four as traders. They were sponsored by one of the hotels in Kuwait.
He added police have found in the possession of some beggars lists of names of Kuwaiti businessmen, charity societies and companies that are known to offer donations during Ramadan in addition to that money.
The official added appropriate measures will be taken against the beggars and their sponsors.