Minutes:
· Started meeting about house maids
· Ghaith talked about the problems that come with hiring maids
· Abdulaziz said that maids don’t care about the houses they work in because they’re not theirs
· Naser stated that food poisoning occurs, because most of them didn’t have professional training
· Ghaith said, theft, kidnapping and murder are some of the crimes that maids commit
· Ghaith started talking about their agenda, and their solutions to these problems
· Abdulaziz said that, treating the maids in a polite way will decrease their bad attitudes
· Ghaith stated, setting up surveillance cameras around the house to monitor the maids
· Abdulaziz said to increase penalties on maids that run away
· Naser added that we should raise awareness in parents
· Ghaith said, family members should do their own work without the help of the maids
· Abdulaziz said that we shouldn’t give them cell phones, because they forget their jobs
· Meeting ended
Recommendations:
1) Treating maids politely to let them feel as part of the family.
2) Begin relying on family members for house chores and babysitting.
3) Set surveillance cameras around the house to monitor the maids.
4) Give free parenting lessons to newlyweds to help them raise the kids properly.
5) Letting the maids use the house phone to contact their families once a week.
Problem: Maid Problems in the UAE
Date of meeting: 2012-03-08
Venue: T001
Group members:
- Chairman: Ghaith
- Minute taker: Nasser
- Participant: Abdulaziz
Venue preparation:
Grouping of chairs round tables
Agenda:
- Raise awareness in parents to let them start raising their kids properly
- Surveillance cameras, to detect improper behavior inside the house
- Increase penalties on runaway maids
- Give family members chores for them to start relying on themselves and to help the maids
- Treating maids in a polite way to rid them of some of their bad attitudes and thoughts