Social Affairs and Labor Minister, Rima al-Qadiri, announced that more than 670,000 foreign women workers were received in Syria during the current year. The minister revealed that the number of offenses received by the Ministry is about 2300, the majority of which concern the respect of the waiting period for women workers (4 years). Rima al-Qadiri, explained that about 17,000 authorized offices in Syria are working in the recruitment sector for foreign women workers and that the new bill, currently debated in Parliament, has toughened sanctions for irregularities and offenses.
The new bill has new financial penalties that can, in some cases, cost up to £ 2 million for anyone who hires or employs workers without a permit. Sanctions of up to two years in prison and closure of the office in question for those who do not respect the principle of work permit.
The new text also imposes a fine of 500,000 pounds against anyone who employs a worker under a false identity, daily and in a field other than the one for which she was originally recruited. The same fine will be imposed on any recruiting office that will not inform the administration of the migration and passport of the change of employer for foreign workers.
The bill sets a fine of £ 300,000 for any office that fails to meet its commitment to the procedures for obtaining a work permit and residence permit during the first 30 days of the worker's arrival in Syria.
Recruitment offices that perform brokerage tasks in recruiting foreign labor for unauthorized offices will be fined £ 300,000. The text adds that the same sanction will be imposed on any office that will recruit workers who do not meet the legal criteria.
In addition, any office which changes address without asking the authorization of the ministry of supervision will be sanctioned with a fine of 200.000 pounds and will see its authorization to be withdrawn to him. The same sanction will be imposed for any office that opens a regional subsidiary without authorization.
The new bill also imposes a fine of 300,000 pounds on anyone who recruits a worker with a chronic or transient illness, physical or mental disability or pregnant (prior to her arrival in Syria).
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