Employers and private sector company owners are once again being warned by the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) in Kuwait to the national labor laws forbidding the employment of women in risky, tough, or depraving jobs.
The new directive reinforces existing legal protections to protect the health of women workers in the entire private sector and to bring the working arrangements of enterprises into line with national labour codes.
The legislation in the ‘working of Kuwait’ is prohibited for the employers to request what that country any employee works if by due to do so is unsafe or involve the risk of bodily harm and of making gender-specific policies to protect the safety of the concern.
The inspectors in our PAM market increased the number of the teams to commercial, industrial as well as the service.
Overview of PAM Workplace Safety Regulations
Women shall not be employed in work for which heavy industry work are employed with dangerous or other jobs which are dangerous to health according to work-primarily the manufacturing, building and chemical industries.
Working hours Furthermore, work time limits shall remain in force, with certain exemptions for whole of industry private sector firms. These will be implemented by field sweeps by compliance officers of the PAM street force to all registered private sector organizations.
Impact on Employers
Business owners in Kuwait should review their staffing and employment practices as soon as possible. PAM has promised that there will be no safety exemptions and inspections for violations will still take place with administrators fines, judicial referrals and removal of commercial licenses.
