Kuwaiti star faces backlash over Filipino worker comments

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...aiti-star-ignites-row-over-filipinos-days-off

A Kuwaiti social media star is facing a backlash after criticising new laws improving conditions for the country’s Filipino domestic workers.

Sondos Alqattan, an Instagram star and makeup artist with over 2.3 million followers, criticised new laws giving Filipino workers a day off per week and preventing employers from seizing their passports.

“How can you have a servant at home who keeps their own passport with them? What’s worse is they have one day off every week,” she said in a video posted online, which has gone viral and attracted criticism in the Middle East and the Philippines.

Alqattan slated reforms introduced in May to protect the rights of Filipino domestic workers: “If they run away and go back to their country, who will refund me? Honestly I disagree with this law. I don’t want a Filipino maid any more.”

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Roughly 660,000 people out of Kuwait’s population of 4 million are domestic migrant workers. According to Human Rights Watch, the country’s “kafala” system, which gives employers extensive powers over migrant workers, often forces them to remain with abusive bosses, while those who flee can be punished and imprisoned.
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Probably upset she can't flog the maid either..
 
Instagram star
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Social media has come a long way. We now have TV, movie and instagram stars.

“How can you have a servant at home who keeps their own passport with them? What’s worse is they have one day off every week,” she said in a video posted online, which has gone viral and attracted criticism in the Middle East and the Philippines.

Alqattan slated reforms introduced in May to protect the rights of Filipino domestic workers: “If they run away and go back to their country, who will refund me? Honestly I disagree with this law. I don’t want a Filipino maid any more.”
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:wtf:
 
“If they run away and go back to their country, who will refund me?"
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Maybe try treating them with dignity as you would any fellow human being they would run away, you twat!
 
This is the middle east, those migrant workers are almost slaves.
 
Not surprising. The way domestic workers are treated in the Middle East is disgusting. :mad:

Exploitation and slavery are in full swing over there.
 
Knyro said:
Not surprising. The way domestic workers are treated in the Middle East is disgusting. :mad:

Exploitation and slavery are in full swing over there.
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Jan van Riebeek's fault no doubt.
 
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