HelperPlace, Musaned and Maaroufah domestic workers' recruitment platforms offer an excellent smooth and uncomplicated recruitment experience for families in Saudi Arabia. However, many domestic labour recruitment offices in Saudi Arabia facilitate recruitment procedures for both domestic workers and employees.
In this guide, we will address everything you need to know about hiring Filipino housemaid in Saudi Arabia in 2023, such as recruitment terms and guidelines, the required documents, the costs, as well as the best platforms that facilitate domestic helpers’ recruitment.
Musaned is an initiative by the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development. The online platform offers domestic helpers recruitment services in an easy, smooth and integrated manner, so that customers can complete all recruiting procedures through the platform with ease, that in addition to providing all the necessary information for recruiting domestic helpers in KSA.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Philippines Ministry of Labour have reached an agreement on the new contract template for the recruitment of domestic workers for the year 2023, which includes the following conditions:
The cost of recruiting domestic workers from the Philippines varies based on the method of the recruitment chosen, providing a variety of options and services to suit everyone, for example:
- Prices of online platform like HelperPlace: Browse and connect with potential housemaid candidates (plan start at 150 SAR).
- Prices of recruitment agencies: The cost of domestic helpers’ recruitment agencies might reach to 11,250 SAR in addition to the helper’s visa cost, and an amount of 5,625 SAR as a mediator fee.
- Prices of the Maaroufah platform which provides an economical option for recruiting domestic helpers, especially from the Philippines, as a 50% discount was recently announced for recruitment from the Philippines, at a fixed cost It is estimated at 8,850 Saudi riyals. If all the recruitment documents and identification papers of the worker are provided by the employer.
- The prices of the Musaned platform: The prices of the Musaned platform services range between 14,500 and 19,000 SAR.
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in KSA, in partnership with Musaned, introduced Maaroufah domestic recruitment services platform.
This new service helps families residing in KSA to find domestic workers from the Philippines in a quick and efficient manner, given that they have the helpers detail in advance.
The service linked to the top licensed recruitment agencies in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam and will cover all parts of KSA soon.
The recruitment contract can be canceled through MUSANED platform, for any of the following reasons: