Domestic worker contract template

Domestic Worker Contract

Contract no.: Contract number

Date: Contract date

Place: City of signing

Parties

First Party (Employer): First party name, national ID / iqama no. First party ID, national address: First party address, e-mail: First party e-mail, mobile: First party mobile.

Second Party (Domestic Worker): Second party name, national ID / iqama no. Second party ID, national address: Second party address, e-mail: Second party e-mail, mobile: Second party mobile.

Article 1: Recitals and definitions

1.1 Whereas the Employer wishes to engage the Second Party in household service, and the Second Party freely wishes that, the parties agree as follows.

1.2 The recitals and schedules form an integral part of this Contract and are read with it. In a conflict, this Contract prevails, then the schedules in numerical order.

1.3 "Business Day" means any day other than Friday, Saturday and an official holiday in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. "Laws" means the laws and regulations in force in the Kingdom.

1.4 This Contract is documented through the Musaned platform on the unified form and is subject to the Domestic Workers Regulation and its amendments. In a conflict the unified form and the Regulation prevail, and any term less favourable to the worker than they provide has no effect.

1.5 Each party confirms that it has legal capacity to contract, that its signatory is authorised, and that entering into this Contract breaches no other obligation binding on it.

Article 2: Work and household

2.1 The Second Party shall work for the Employer as: Occupation, at the home at: Home address; household members: Household size.

2.2 Duties: Household duties. The mandatory insurance on domestic worker contracts covers what the rules provide for the first two years of a contract through Musaned.

2.3 The Second Party is given no work outside its occupation or harmful to its health, none for anyone other than the Employer, and none outside the city without its consent. It is given no dangerous or degrading work.

Article 3: Term and probation

3.1 Start date: Start date. Term: Contract term, ending on End date. It renews by documented agreement.

3.2 Probation: Probation days, no more than the Regulation allows. Either party may end the Contract during it, with the rights the Regulation gives.

Article 4: Wage and payment

4.1 Monthly wage: SAR Monthly wage, paid no later than day Pay day of the next month, by bank transfer, approved e-wallet or the approved platform, in a way that can be proved.

4.2 No sum is deducted from the wage except as the Regulation allows. The Second Party bears no recruitment, visa, residence, work permit, transfer of service or change of occupation fee, nor any late fine on them.

4.3 The Employer provides suitable housing and food, or an allowance: Housing and food allowance, and treatment or medical insurance under the Regulation.

Article 5: Hours, rest and leave

5.1 Working hours do not exceed 10 a day, with a break of at least 30 minutes after every 5 hours. The Second Party has daily rest of at least 9 consecutive hours at night, or more if the Regulation provides.

5.2 Weekly rest: a full paid day: Weekly rest day. One paid month's leave after two years of service on renewal, and a return ticket every two years and when the Contract ends at the Employer's expense, or anything better in the Regulation.

5.3 Sick leave on a medical report of up to 30 days a year, or anything better in the Regulation; the Second Party is never prevented from treatment.

Article 6: Rights and treatment

6.1 The Second Party is treated with respect. It is forbidden to harm or confine it, or to hold its passport, ID, phone, wage or documents. It may contact its family during its rest time.

6.2 The Second Party shall be honest in the home, keep family matters confidential, not photograph or publish them, respect the Laws and public decency, and take care of property and any children or elderly people in its charge.

Article 7: Health, safety and legal status

7.1 The Employer bears the statutory medical check and treatment or insurance, provides protective equipment and safe cleaning materials, and does not make the Second Party work at dangerous heights or beyond its physical capacity. On injury it is taken for treatment at once, at the Employer's cost if work caused it.

7.2 The Employer keeps the residence permit and work permit valid at its own cost, and documents the wage by the approved method. The Second Party does not work for anyone else, nor does the Employer require it to. Transfer of service or change of occupation is under the Regulation and Musaned, at no charge to it.

7.3 If the Second Party is absent without excuse, the Employer may report it only under the statutory procedure and truthfully. A malicious report is forbidden. Everything of the Second Party's, its belongings and wage, is returned to it.

Article 8: Complaints, custody and data

8.1 The Second Party may complain to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development or through its channels, including its hotline, with no retaliation or deduction as a result. It shall not be put out of the home without shelter or safe transport until its rights are settled.

8.2 A list is made of keys, money or devices given to the Second Party: Assets in custody, which it returns on request. It answers only for what is lost through proved misuse or neglect, and any deduction stays within the Regulation.

8.3 The Employer processes the Second Party's data only to perform this Contract and the Laws. No camera may be placed in its room or private places, and its phone may not be inspected. Announced cameras are used only in the home's shared areas, within the Laws.

8.4 The parties shall first try to resolve any dispute by talking, and may call on the recruitment office or company or an interpreter where needed: Recruitment agency. Each keeps its copy of this Contract, and wage payment proof, for at least 5 years.

Article 9: Ending and dues

9.1 The Contract may end by agreement, at expiry, or in the cases of breach in the Regulation. Where notice is given, it is: Notice period.

9.2 When it ends, all dues are settled in full: remaining wage, allowances, leave and the end-of-service award (one month's wage after 4 continuous years of service, or anything better in the Regulation), and the Second Party signs a release in a language it understands.

9.3 Disputes go to the competent body for domestic worker disputes at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, then the competent court. The Second Party receives a copy of the Contract in a language it understands.

Article 10: Representations and warranties

10.1 The Employer and the Domestic Worker each confirm the following at signing, and shall tell the other at once if any of it changes:

• the details and documents it has provided are true and complete on everything affecting the other's decision, and it has hidden nothing it knows to be material.

• no legal bar prevents performance of this Contract, and its purpose is lawful.

• it holds the licences and legal documents its role requires, and will keep them valid throughout.

10.2 An untrue material statement is a breach of this Contract, subject to its terms and the Civil Transactions Law; deliberately misleading information is deceit that allows annulment and compensation to be sought.

Article 11: Breach and its effects

11.1 A breach notice is in writing, states the obligation breached, what is needed to cure it and a reasonable time of at least 15 days, unless this Contract sets another period. No notice is needed if cure is impossible or the party at fault has said it will not perform.

11.2 Each party may withhold its corresponding obligation that has fallen due if the other has not performed its own, unless that would run against good faith or the failure is minor, under the Civil Transactions Law.

11.3 The injured party shall make reasonable efforts to limit its loss and is not compensated for what it could have avoided. Compensation follows proved loss. Nothing is charged as compensation or increase merely for lateness in paying a sum of money, and the actual costs awarded by the competent authority may be claimed.

11.4 On termination the parties are restored as far as possible, each answering for what it actually benefited from. This Contract does not affect statutory limitation periods or the terms that survive its end by their nature.

Article 12: General provisions

12.1 This Contract is governed by the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, changes only in writing and by documentation where required, and the Arabic prevails in any difference.

12.2 No breach or ending removes rights that arose earlier, and the parties confirm that they know their rights and duties under the Regulation.

Schedules

• Schedule 1: household details and the list of duties.

Signatures

The parties sign this Contract after reading and accepting all of its terms.

| First Party (Employer) | Second Party (Domestic Worker) |

| --- | --- |

| Name: First party name | Name: Second party name |

| Signature: First party signature | Signature: Second party signature |

| Date: Signing date | Date: Signing date |

| First witness | Second witness |

| --- | --- |

| Name: First witness name | Name: Second witness name |

| ID: First witness ID | ID: Second witness ID |

| Signature: First witness signature | Signature: Second witness signature |