Dubai cops have arrested a housemaid who was mixing her urine with her employer’s food and drink in a bid to control them, UAE website Emirates 24/7 reported on Wednesday. Her employer reported the ...

A despondent maid in Dubai who was fired from her job after complaining about the lack of pay tried to commit suicide — only to be arrested and fined by police, according to reports. The desperate act ...

Two maids have spoken of the appalling abuse they claim was dished out by their employers, as a top diplomat called for an end to household “slavery”. Hedja Ousman, 22, and Wube Tamene, 18, worked for ...

A Dubai-based maid is dead and another seriously injured after a bloody fight between the pair involving knives and skewers, UAE daily The National reported on Tuesday. Cops found the two Ethiopian ...

The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (Mohre) announced that 40 Domestic Worker Recruitment Offices in the UAE were penalised during the first half of 2025, with administrative and ...

Dubai Misdemeanour Court fined an Asian maid Dhs3,000 after proving her negligence and failure to take necessary precautions to prevent a potential danger from a dog in her care, which attacked a ...

After talks between the governments of the UAE and the Philippines — one of the many countries from where foreign maids are recruited — the two will have an agreement on household service workers ...

24 August 2006 Given its love of superlatives, Dubai is missing an opportunity. Surely, it is high time someone contacted the Guinness Book of Records to check the rules for world's crappest parents ...

DUBAI - An Islamic court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced a pregnant Asian housemaid to 150 lashes for adultery, local newspapers reported today. Authorities in Ras al-Khaimah emirate ...

“I couldn't take it anymore,” said the 26-year-old, a tidy woman in flip-flops who sought refuge last week in the Philippine Consulate. “I ran away.” Lisa, who asked that her last name not be used, is ...