Kuwait's foreign worker sponsorship system
Kuwait requires foreign workers to be sponsored by a local employer to obtain a work permit. In August 2008, MP Abdullah Al-Roumi said he would draft a law to scrap Kuwait’s 'kafeel' sponsorship system, arguing that the government should be the sole sponsor and that the system fuels crime and human trafficking. The plan to change the system was dropped in 2011.
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