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9. In a since-deleted 2018 social media video, makeup influencer Sondos al-Qattan complained about new laws in Kuwait, where she lives, that had been recently passed to provide more protection for domestic help employees, such as housekeepers. She said, “For people who want to go get a Filipino domestic worker, what are these ridiculous work contracts you’ve got to sign? But how can you have a servant in your house who gets to keep their passport with them? Where are we living? If they ran away and went back to their country, who’ll refund me? Even worse is that they get a day off every single week! What’s left?”
“Honestly, with this new contract, I just wouldn’t get a Filipino maid. She’d only work six days a week and get four days off a month,” she said.
Several beauty brands cut ties with her. Though she deleted the video, it was reposted on Twitter and YouTube, where commenters called her out.
In a follow-up video, the influencer said she was glad her post went viral because “maybe that will help her as an employer get more rights.”
Additionally, on Instagram, she said, “Due to the spreading rumors, it was only necessary to make a responsive clarification. The passport of any expat employee should be in the poseseccesion of the employer to protect the employer’s interests. Irrevelant of the employer/employee nationality…I have not [in] any circumstances in present or past… degraded or in any way mistreated an employee of mine. I consider all employees as equal human being [sic].”
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