UAE: Maid makes Dh2,574 phone calls from employer’s home, ordered to pay bill

A housemaid in Al Ain has been approached to pay Dh2,574 piled up in phone bills when she settled on worldwide decisions to her nation of origin utilizing her manager’s landline without her insight.

Official court reports expressed that the female manager had documented a claim against the housemaid at Al Ain Court of First Instance requesting that she pay her Dh3,000 she utilized on worldwide calls utilizing the landline without her insight and assent.

The Arab lady additionally requested that the court make the housemaid pay her one more Dh2,000 for the cooking wares she harmed before she fled from her home.

She likewise requested that the housemaid pay her Dh5,000 in remuneration for the moral and monetary harms she caused her.

The lady let the court know that the housemaid worked for her family for some time. Furthermore during her visit, she used to settle on worldwide decisions without the information on anybody in the family.

She said the phone bill for the worldwide calls had arrived at Dh2,574. She additionally introduced duplicates of the telephone bill gave by the correspondences organization to court.

The business said the housemaid fled from the family without clearing the phone bill.

Subsequent to investigating the matter, the court said in its decision that it was affirmed that the phone bills for worldwide calls made on the home telephone had arrived at Dh2,574, in light of the reports from the telecom organization.

The court, consequently, requested the housemaid to clear the bill and pay for the lawful costs.

The adjudicator dismissed different cases from the business because of an absence of proof.