KUWAIT CITY, Dec 10: Islamist opposition former MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei urged sponsors to treat their domestic workers well. This is in light of incidents of abuse by domestic workers towards the children of civilian sponsors and abuse by sponsors towards their domestic help.

Al-Tabtabaei on his Twitter account on Friday said that domestic workers will love their sponsors if they are treated well and urged employers to: (1-) pay their full salary on time, (2-) not force them to do difficult work, such as wash cars in the cold, (3-) give them two hours rest in the day-time, (4-) not be short with food, (5-) give them the right to travel every two years for two months and with full pay, (6-) increase their salary by not less than 10 percent yearly, (7-) give them monthly KD 5 phone cards.