Musaned Platform
19-10-2024
07:45 AM
1 min read
Overview:
Recently, Saudi Arabia platform called Musaned to to ensure wage protection, human rights of expat workers.
About Musaned Platform:
- It is a digital platform launched by Saudi Arabia.
- Under this platform foreign workers in the domestic (household) work sector can check the existing employment contracts and follow updates in a dedicated Musaned labour app.
- Features
- This system allows foreign embassies to have “view access” on the system on “all the details related to their citizens working in Saudi (employer name, location, endorsed contract.”).
- It allows the foreign missions a “view access” aimed at resolving labour disputes more efficiently.
- It will benefit at least 10 African countries like Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Egypt and Kenya as well as nine Asian countries such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam, Philippines and Sri Lanka.
- It can be linked with contract insurance and health benefits.
- This platform would protect human rights and provide a “stable working environment” for both the employee as well as the employers.
- The most important feature of this platform is that it provides a “wage protection system” by following the employers’ obligations to pay the monthly wages for the workers.
- The digital platform can track financial transactions between the employers and the foreign workers, thereby ensuring the employers will fulfil the contractual obligations towards the foreign workers.
Q1: What is migration?
Migration is the movement of people away from their usual place of residence, either internal (within the country) or international (across countries) borders.
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