UK SC rules Saudi diplomat may face charges for breaching Filipino worker's employment contract

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MANILA, Philippines — The United Kingdom’s highest court has ruled that a Saudi Arabian diplomat may face charges for breaching a Filipina domestic worker’s contract and for being complicit in a modern slavery case.

 

The UK Supreme Court in a landmark July 6 ruling said a diplomat’s failure to fairly compensate a domestic worker equates to “commercial activity practised for personal profit." 

 

Filipino domestic worker Josephine Wong filed a claim against her former employer, Britain-based Saudi diplomat Khalid Basfar, at the UK employment tribunal after she was left unpaid for most of her services while she was subjected to “degrading and offensive treatment” for two years before her escape.

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/07/07/2193727/uk-sc-rules-saudi-diplomat-may-face-charges-breaching-filipino-workers-employment-contract

 

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