Due to the increasing instances of minimum age violations of hiring of Filipino domestic workers, MWO Dubai reiterates the existing rules and regulations governing their recruitment and deployment. As stated under POEA Governing Board Resolution No. 14, series of 2007, and reaffirmed in POEA Advisory No. 43, series of 2022, the minimum age requirement for the deployment of Filipino domestic workers has been increased from 23 years old to 24 years old.
Violation of such rules may merit the following consequences under Department Circular No. 1, entitled Promulgating the 2023 Department of Migrant Workers Rules and Regulations Governing the Recruitment and Employment of Landbased Overseas Filipino Workers:
1. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ด๐ถ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ช๐น๐ต๐บ (60) ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต [๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ 108 (๐ค)];
2. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ [๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ 149. ๐, ๐ข].
The minimum age requirement for Filipino Domestic workers has been a long-standing policy that is being observed by the Migrant Workers Offices (MWOs) worldwide and may allegation by TADBEER centers of its non-enforcement is baseless. Moreover, Filipino domestic workers may still exit the UAE legally, but their employment documents will not be verified due to the minimum age violation, resulting to the non-issuance of an exit clearance.
Any misinformation of the preceding paragraph by TADBEER centers will be dealt with accordingly.
