Rights and obligations established by the UAE and Egyptian legislators to protect the rights of Domestic service workers and the like

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Faculty of Law - Mansoura University

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Domestic work is one of the oldest professions known to mankind, and the most important for millions of women around the world who suffer from extreme poverty, or from conflicts and wars in their countries. In modern societies, and after the entry of women into the scope of work, reliance on servants and their likes became very important for managing household chores, as domestic workers constitute a very large proportion of the workforce, especially in developing countries, and their number is constantly increasing, even in the industrialized world. The research has reached a number of results, the most important of which are: The UAE legislator excluded domestic workers and the like from being subject to the provisions of the Labor Law, although this category performs private, dependent, paid work, under the control and supervision of the employer, but he has provided this group with protection under the Law A newly issued special, which is Federal Law No. (10) of 2017 regarding domestic workers. The research recommended that the UAE legislator specify what is meant by the word (worker), which he referred to when defining the occupations that are considered among the professions of assistance workers in the appendix of Federal Law No. (15) of 2017 regarding service workers. Does he mean the private worker, as he referred to … a trainer A private, a private teacher, a private nurse, a private representative, a private agricultural engineer, a private driver, ...., because the absolute is being released.

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