Too many migrant domestic workers have not been paid by their employers for months and even years before the crisis, others have no travel documents as they are confiscated on arrival by the Lebanese employer. Almost immediately after media interviews, Minister Yammine then contradicted her earlier stand, rushing any hopes that the Kafala system was abolished.
The measure to actually abolish this system would in fact require a legislative change as an enforcement mechanism to ensure Lebanese employers/sponsors and recruitment agencies will abide by its terms.