Through this private-public partnership, Tadbeer centers will now provide integrated services under government's supervision to ensure convenience to both parties involved (families and workers).

The centers provide all services related to domestic workers recruitment from opening a file to the client and issuing and cancelling work permits and contracts, to issuing medical tests, health insurance and ID services. Transportation to and from the airport is provided to workers with housing for them until they're hired.?

A specialized support center is also provided to ensure guide and educate both parties on their rights and duties.

Costs of hiring domestic workers
The ministry used its results from the study conducted to set the costs of recruiting domestic workers that would suit families in the UAE, while taking into account the different prices of tickets and costs that vary from one labor-exporting country to another.

Al Suwaidi said that the variety of packages Tadbeer centers provide for workers' nationalities and costs helped in adjusting prices to the income and needs of different families across UAE:

- The first package is temporary placement and transfer that will allow families to hire a worker for contractual period of six months. After six months, the worker can be transferred under the family sponsorship on the agreement of both parties.

The ministry set a transfer fee (excluding the monthly salary) of Dh8,000 for Filipino, Indonesian and Sri Lankan workers, and Dh4,500 for Bangladeshi workers. Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda are to be transferred for Dh3,500, while the fee for Indian and Nepali workers is Dh6,000.

The monthly salary for Filipino and Indonesian workers under this package is Dh2,500; Dh2,200 for Sri Lankan workers; Dh2,250 for workers from Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal and India; Dh2,300 for Ethiopian and Ugandan workers.

- The second package provides the option of hiring workers under the company (Tadbeer) sponsorship.

The monthly salary is set Dh2,500 for Filipino and Indonesian workers; 2,300 for Sri Lankan, Ethiopian and Ugandan workers; and Dh2,250 for workers of Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal and India.

- The third package is on-demand cleaning services that allow families hire a worker under Tadbeer center sponsorship to provide flexible services according to the requirements of the employer or family under a cost unified for all nationalities.

Four hours of work per day will cost Dh120, while eight hours a day costing Dh200.

Seven days of work will cost Dh1,120, and a month will cost Dh3,500.

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