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28 March 2024

Hiring a maid from Sri Lanka? Background check is now compulsory

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COLOMBO - It will now be compulsory for female workers to submit a report on their family background before leaving for overseas jobs, the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) has said.

SLBFE Deputy General Manager and Media Spokesman Mangala Randeniya told ‘The Island’ that female workers should submit a report on their family background, which should be certified by the SLBFE before they leave for overseas jobs.

Accordingly, an official affiliated to the SLBFE will be appointed to verify the accuracy of details provided by Grama Niladari and submit a comprehensive report.

The report provides the information about the housemaid’s children, their protection and many other important facts.

The SLBFE authorities would specially inspect whether the female worker was a mother and if so, whether she could put her children in safe hands during her absence, he said.

Social organisations and various other parties had expressed their views and made proposals on the aftermath on the society when a female worker goes abroad, Randeniya said adding that the decision was taken after studying those proposals in order to minimise the sufferings to the dependents of such female workers.

"SLBFE has taken the decision to prevent the female workers, who have too many domestic issues, from going overseas," he added.

Randeniya further pointed out that only the licensed agencies could provide jobs for females and that too, only after the background report was submitted.

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