In recent months, the government of Kuwait has made several reforms to laws affecting Filipino domestic workers who live and work in the Gulf state. 

Under them, Kuwait-based nationals of the Philippines will now be governed by work contracts that protect their right to a day off and to keep their passport with them.

The reforms come weeks after the Philippines' president, Rodrigo Duterte, criticized the way nationals of his country were being treated in Kuwait and even asked them to travel back home. 

Even though the changes, which should guarantee basic rights to hundreds of thousands of Filipino workers in Kuwait, are a step in the right direction, they haven't gone down too well with some Kuwaitis. 

Those include social media celebrity and makeup artist, Sondos Al Qattan, who shockingly hit back at the new rules in a video that has since gone viral.  

Al Qattan's racist comments circulated on Kuwaiti Twitter

فيديو / فاشنيستا تصف بالعقود الجديدة لجلب العمالة المنزلية بـ«المصخرة»: كيف لها يوم اجازة في كل اسبوع!؟ pic.twitter.com/tIRfDQHVb5

— المجلس (@Almajlliss) July 14, 2018

In a video that tweeps uploaded to Twitter earlier this week, Al Qattan makes several comments criticizing the new work contracts. 

"For people who want to go get a Filipino domestic worker, what are these ridiculous work contracts you've got to sign? The woman I met with was reading out the rules to me and I was just shocked. Put aside that they need to be given a break every five hours, that's normal. But, how can you have a 'servant' in your house who gets to keep their passport with them? Where are we living? If they ran away and went back to their country, who'll refund me?," she said. 

Al Qattan didn't stop at that but also went on to object to a rule that grants a worker a day off per week. 

"Even worse, is that they get a day off every single week! What's left? Honestly, with this new contract, I just wouldn't 'get' a Filipino 'maid.' She'd only work six days a week and get four days off a month," she added. 

And angered hundreds who were having none of it

اشكال غريبة .. ما تبي الانسان ياخذ اجازه !! يبونها عبودية !! وهي اذا قلتلها داومي مبجر تبلش تحلطم

— bader (@Bader_AlBannay) July 14, 2018

"She doesn't want a human being to get a day off!! She wants to enslave them!!"​

"Her job is to be a domestic helper not a slave!!"

فيديو / فاشنيستا تصف بالعقود الجديدة لجلب العمالة المنزلية بـ«المصخرة»: كيف لها يوم اجازة في كل اسبوع!؟ pic.twitter.com/tIRfDQHVb5

— المجلس (@Almajlliss) July 14, 2018

"It's normal that she gets to keep her passport!! And you're surprised she gets a day off, that's the least she should get."

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