Hiring of Filipino maids streamlined

Filipino maids are now arriving in the Kingdom normally, according to Ezzeddin Tago, the Philippine ambassador in Riyadh.
He said that the new contracts for the Filipino maids entitle them to a SR 1, 500 ($ 400) salary.
Tago urged all the employers to provide their maids with bank accounts where they should receive the salary. He said that the Filipino labor minister will visit the Kingdom on May 18 to sign the new recruitment agreement with the Saudi labor minister. She will apprise herself about the Filipino workers' status after the recent decisions taken by the Kingdom to correct the labor market conditions.
About the Filipino workers gathering in front of his country's embassy, Tago said they numbered 5,000, of which many of them were reported as runaway by their employers. He asked the expatriate division in the passport department to finish their papers so they could leave the country at the soonest.