Two men ordered to pay Dhs20,000 to a woman for providing a sick maid in UAE

The Al Ain Court of Civil, Commercial and Administrative Cases obligated two men to pay a woman Dhs20,000 including a fine of Dhs5,000 as compensation after the latter had recruited a maid from them who was found to be sick and needed surgery. After checking with them to return the maid and receive the money she had paid back, the defendants refused to return the money. It was proved to the court that the defendants had been acting as intermediaries to bring in workers without obtaining a permit from the competent authority.

Earlier, a woman filed a lawsuit against two men in which she asked the court to obligate them to pay her Dhs30,000 as compensation for the physical and moral harms she sustained together with the incurred fees and expenses. The woman pleaded that she had hired a maid from the defendants for Dhs15,000 only to discover later that she was sick and needed surgery. When she checked with the defendants to return the maid and receive get her money back, they refused to pay the money back.

The defendants were convicted under a lawsuit that was upheld by a verdict issued by the Court of Cassation, given the several harms that the plaintiff sustained.

The court explained that it was evident from the documents that the cause of the harms required to be compensated was the error of the two defendants who acted as an intermediary to recruit the maid and receive the needed money from the victim - the plaintiff's son - without obtaining a permit from the competent authority.

Based on this, the court’s role is limited to estimating the due compensation only, in which case, the physical compensation is estimated as Dhs15,000 and the due moral compensation as Dhs5,000.