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Qatar adopts new law on Domestic Workers

The Emir of Qatar ratified Law No.15 on service workers in the home (“Domestic Workers Law”), thus adopting a law on labour rights for domestic workers for the first time in the country. The law guarantees workers a maximum 10-hour workday, a weekly rest day, three weeks of annual leave, and an end-of-service payment of at least three weeks per year. The lack of an enforcement mechanism in the law, however, is likely to impede the implementation of the law.

 

Source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/08/24/qatar-new-law-gives-domestic-workers-labor-rights