サウジ家政婦虐待：スリランカ政府が本気で怒る 訴訟へ
先日のコピペの続報。
1番目は、この問題について、スリランカ外務省がサウジ国内で訴訟を起こす。大使館が全面支援する。また、IOM（国際移民機構）と国連でも問題を取り上げる。
家政婦が仕えていた人物が不明という回答は、いかにもサウジ的。住所も名前も顔も全部割れているのに、地元民が横で連絡を取り合って、必死で隠すのです。絶対に口を割らない。最後まで知らぬ、存ぜぬ、ここにはいないで押し通す。
2番目は、サウジにおける家政婦（メード）の相場。月10数万円とされているが、最近は20万円を超えている。月給とは別に、仲介会社への手数料、往復の飛行機代、2年に1度の帰国休暇の飛行機代、ビザ取得料などの経費がかかる。
Lankan officials seek justice for maid in nails & needles case
By MOHAMMED RASOOLDEEN, ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 27, 2010 20:06 Updated: Aug 28, 2010 00:10
RIYADH: Sri Lankan officials strongly urged authorities in Saudi Arabia on Friday to investigate and bring to justice the persons responsible for torturing L.T. Ariyawathi, a 49-year-old Sri Lankan housemaid by heating up nails and needles and pushing them into her legs, arms, hands and forehead.
The maid said the Saudi couple she worked for in a Riyadh household committed the crime as a form of punishment. The couple has not been identified and Saudi officials were not available for comment on Friday.
Lankan Justice Ministry sources told Arab News on Friday that legal counsel would be provided to the maid to file a case in Saudi Arabia over the incident.
"The Bureau (of Foreign Employment) will make all arrangements to take her to Saudi Arabia to testify," said L.K. Ruhunuge of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment.
The matter may also be taken up with the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations, Lankan officials added.
Ariywawathi flew back to Sri Lanka last week and was admitted to Kamburupitiya Hospital in Matara district, 140 kilometers from Colombo.
Doctors in Sri Lanka removed on Friday 13 nails and five needles from the maid's body. Six needles in her hands reportedly could not be removed because the procedure would damage nerves and arteries.
Hospital Director Prabath Gajadeera said the maid has suffered injury to nerves and muscles but no damage to vital organs. The maid is in stable condition and said she feels much better without the nails and needles embedded in her flesh.
Lankan External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris met with Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Sri Lankan Abdul Rahman Al-Jammaz in Colombo on Friday to discuss the incident.
Doctors who performed the surgery have been informed to provide a medical report to the External Affairs Ministry to send to the Saudi government in order for them to take appropriate action against those responsible for the sadistic crime.
Confirming the arrangement, an official from the Labor Welfare Department at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Riyadh told Arab News that the mission will go into action once it receives the report from Colombo.
"We cannot deal with the Saudi sponsor directly," he said. "It has to be done through the Saudi foreign ministry."
According to the work contract signed by Ariyawathi, the local agent in Riyadh is Diamond Star Recruitment Bureau in Sweidi district while the Sri Lankan agent is New Diamond Star Manpower based in Colombo.
The Lankan government has reportedly forwarded testimony from the maid to Saudi authorities.
Hiring a maid getting costlier
By WALAA HAWARI | ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 27, 2010 23:47 Updated: Aug 27, 2010 23:47
Labor recruiters charging exorbitant amounts for providing domestic help
RIYADH: Despite rules set by the National Recruitment Committee, labor recruiters are still charging more than they should for domestic helpers.
The prices for maids are set by the committee based on nationality: SR6,000 for Indonesians and SR5,500 for Sri Lankans. Indonesians and Sri Lankans make up 80 to 90 percent of legal domestic helpers and the different prices reflect differing wage requirements set by the governments of those countries.
These new, lower prices were set by the National Recruitment Committee to take effect next month after complaints were made that prices were too high: SR7,500 for Indonesians and SR8,500 for Sri Lankans.
These costs are what the recruiters charge to provide a legal domestic servant, but they do not always include additional fees such as the administrative costs of acquiring the work visa.
But even as the new set prices are soon to take effect, the cost of hiring a domestic helper is higher than even the current set prices: as much as SR8,200 for an Indonesian and SR9,000 for a Sri Lankan.
In additions to these costs and the worker's salary, employers of domestic help also provide a round-trip plane ticket every two years for home visits and cover the final-exit travel expenses at the end of the work contract.
According to National Recruitment Committee Director Saad Al-Badah, recruiting offices that do not abide by the new set prices will be subjected to losing their licenses to recruit labor.
However, these regulations mean nothing to the booming market for re-recruitment by labor brokers who acquire foreign maids locally who have been let go by their first employers and released to work elsewhere.
The peak season for re-recruiters is during Ramadan, when demand for temporary domestic help spikes as families become swamped with hungry visiting relatives and friends.
Al-Badah points out that re-recruiters are not legitimate businesses and therefore do not fall under his committee's jurisdiction.
"Some offices who rely on help that has been released by their sponsors to work elsewhere are not authorized by the Ministry of Labor and are not our responsibility," said Al-Badah.
Ironically, the cost of hiring a foreign domestic servant locally is about the same as the cost of bringing in a worker from thousands of kilometers away.
Riyadh resident Najla said she was asking SR16,000 to release her driver and maid locally because after waiting four months for the couple to arrive she discovered the driver wasn't familiar with the city and didn't know the streets. When she complained to the local recruiter that she had specifically requested a driver who knew his way around Riyadh, the recruiter said he would take the couple back but would only reimburse her SR10,000.
"I was not happy with this answer so I called the office myself claiming that I was looking for a couple, and to my surprise they told me they do have a couple for the price of SR21,000," she said.
Some sponsors have also created an illegal side business of renting out domestic helpers under their sponsorship, earning up to SR3,500 during the month of Ramadan.
In 2004 members of the Shoura Council petitioned to lower the cost of work visas and to establish a process by which families could legally hire temporary domestic helpers. Al-Badah said both proposals have languished since.
1番目は、この問題について、スリランカ外務省がサウジ国内で訴訟を起こす。大使館が全面支援する。また、IOM（国際移民機構）と国連でも問題を取り上げる。
家政婦が仕えていた人物が不明という回答は、いかにもサウジ的。住所も名前も顔も全部割れているのに、地元民が横で連絡を取り合って、必死で隠すのです。絶対に口を割らない。最後まで知らぬ、存ぜぬ、ここにはいないで押し通す。
2番目は、サウジにおける家政婦（メード）の相場。月10数万円とされているが、最近は20万円を超えている。月給とは別に、仲介会社への手数料、往復の飛行機代、2年に1度の帰国休暇の飛行機代、ビザ取得料などの経費がかかる。
Lankan officials seek justice for maid in nails & needles case
By MOHAMMED RASOOLDEEN, ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 27, 2010 20:06 Updated: Aug 28, 2010 00:10
RIYADH: Sri Lankan officials strongly urged authorities in Saudi Arabia on Friday to investigate and bring to justice the persons responsible for torturing L.T. Ariyawathi, a 49-year-old Sri Lankan housemaid by heating up nails and needles and pushing them into her legs, arms, hands and forehead.
The maid said the Saudi couple she worked for in a Riyadh household committed the crime as a form of punishment. The couple has not been identified and Saudi officials were not available for comment on Friday.
Lankan Justice Ministry sources told Arab News on Friday that legal counsel would be provided to the maid to file a case in Saudi Arabia over the incident.
"The Bureau (of Foreign Employment) will make all arrangements to take her to Saudi Arabia to testify," said L.K. Ruhunuge of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment.
The matter may also be taken up with the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations, Lankan officials added.
Ariywawathi flew back to Sri Lanka last week and was admitted to Kamburupitiya Hospital in Matara district, 140 kilometers from Colombo.
Doctors in Sri Lanka removed on Friday 13 nails and five needles from the maid's body. Six needles in her hands reportedly could not be removed because the procedure would damage nerves and arteries.
Hospital Director Prabath Gajadeera said the maid has suffered injury to nerves and muscles but no damage to vital organs. The maid is in stable condition and said she feels much better without the nails and needles embedded in her flesh.
Lankan External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris met with Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Sri Lankan Abdul Rahman Al-Jammaz in Colombo on Friday to discuss the incident.
Doctors who performed the surgery have been informed to provide a medical report to the External Affairs Ministry to send to the Saudi government in order for them to take appropriate action against those responsible for the sadistic crime.
Confirming the arrangement, an official from the Labor Welfare Department at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Riyadh told Arab News that the mission will go into action once it receives the report from Colombo.
"We cannot deal with the Saudi sponsor directly," he said. "It has to be done through the Saudi foreign ministry."
According to the work contract signed by Ariyawathi, the local agent in Riyadh is Diamond Star Recruitment Bureau in Sweidi district while the Sri Lankan agent is New Diamond Star Manpower based in Colombo.
The Lankan government has reportedly forwarded testimony from the maid to Saudi authorities.
Hiring a maid getting costlier
By WALAA HAWARI | ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 27, 2010 23:47 Updated: Aug 27, 2010 23:47
Labor recruiters charging exorbitant amounts for providing domestic help
RIYADH: Despite rules set by the National Recruitment Committee, labor recruiters are still charging more than they should for domestic helpers.
The prices for maids are set by the committee based on nationality: SR6,000 for Indonesians and SR5,500 for Sri Lankans. Indonesians and Sri Lankans make up 80 to 90 percent of legal domestic helpers and the different prices reflect differing wage requirements set by the governments of those countries.
These new, lower prices were set by the National Recruitment Committee to take effect next month after complaints were made that prices were too high: SR7,500 for Indonesians and SR8,500 for Sri Lankans.
These costs are what the recruiters charge to provide a legal domestic servant, but they do not always include additional fees such as the administrative costs of acquiring the work visa.
But even as the new set prices are soon to take effect, the cost of hiring a domestic helper is higher than even the current set prices: as much as SR8,200 for an Indonesian and SR9,000 for a Sri Lankan.
In additions to these costs and the worker's salary, employers of domestic help also provide a round-trip plane ticket every two years for home visits and cover the final-exit travel expenses at the end of the work contract.
According to National Recruitment Committee Director Saad Al-Badah, recruiting offices that do not abide by the new set prices will be subjected to losing their licenses to recruit labor.
However, these regulations mean nothing to the booming market for re-recruitment by labor brokers who acquire foreign maids locally who have been let go by their first employers and released to work elsewhere.
The peak season for re-recruiters is during Ramadan, when demand for temporary domestic help spikes as families become swamped with hungry visiting relatives and friends.
Al-Badah points out that re-recruiters are not legitimate businesses and therefore do not fall under his committee's jurisdiction.
"Some offices who rely on help that has been released by their sponsors to work elsewhere are not authorized by the Ministry of Labor and are not our responsibility," said Al-Badah.
Ironically, the cost of hiring a foreign domestic servant locally is about the same as the cost of bringing in a worker from thousands of kilometers away.
Riyadh resident Najla said she was asking SR16,000 to release her driver and maid locally because after waiting four months for the couple to arrive she discovered the driver wasn't familiar with the city and didn't know the streets. When she complained to the local recruiter that she had specifically requested a driver who knew his way around Riyadh, the recruiter said he would take the couple back but would only reimburse her SR10,000.
"I was not happy with this answer so I called the office myself claiming that I was looking for a couple, and to my surprise they told me they do have a couple for the price of SR21,000," she said.
Some sponsors have also created an illegal side business of renting out domestic helpers under their sponsorship, earning up to SR3,500 during the month of Ramadan.
In 2004 members of the Shoura Council petitioned to lower the cost of work visas and to establish a process by which families could legally hire temporary domestic helpers. Al-Badah said both proposals have languished since.
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