What to check, what to prepare and what to expect on this route. Every official name and link below comes from a government or ILO page we read; we say plainly where there is none.
Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE)
SLBFE licenses foreign employment agencies, registers migrant workers and takes their complaints.
How to check: Look the agency up in the SLBFE licensed-agency directory. If something is wrong, SLBFE takes complaints online and by phone.
SLBFE hotline 1989 or +94 11 2 880 500
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Every candidate completes the same intake checklist. Your source country adds its own clearances on top. The destination side (visa type, medical, attestation) depends on the employer and your role, and your specialist confirms what currently applies.
Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs (ADLSA)
The ministry runs the labour complaints service and the contract and work-permit services.
Labour helpline 16008
Last checked 29 September 2026. Links go to official sites we do not control; treat each site as the authority, not this page.
What the government and the ILO publish, in plain words. Laws change: your contract and the official page always win over this summary.
Charging workers recruitment fees, expenses or any other costs is prohibited.
ILO factsheet: Qatar, regulatory framework governing migrant workers (updated December 2023)It is illegal for an employer to confiscate a passport (a fine of up to QAR 25,000). Employers must provide accommodation with a lockable personal storage space for each worker, which the worker can reach at any time.
ILO factsheet: Qatar, regulatory framework governing migrant workers (updated December 2023)Qatar's non-discriminatory minimum wage took effect on 20 March 2021: QAR 1,000 basic, plus at least QAR 300 for food and QAR 500 for housing if the employer does not provide them.
ILO: Qatar's new minimum wage enters into forceThe minimum wage covers all workers of all nationalities in all sectors, including domestic workers.
ILO: Qatar's new minimum wage enters into forceEmployment contracts are authenticated by the Ministry of Labour through an electronic system that produces a bilingual contract in Arabic and another language.
ILO factsheet: Qatar, regulatory framework governing migrant workers (updated December 2023)Employers must pay wages electronically through the Wage Protection System, at the end of the month and no later than the third day of the next month.
ILO factsheet: Qatar, regulatory framework governing migrant workers (updated December 2023)The working day is eight hours and the week 48 hours (36 hours a week or six hours a day in Ramadan). Total daily hours may not exceed 10.
ILO factsheet: Qatar, regulatory framework governing migrant workers (updated December 2023)Overtime is paid at 125 per cent of the wage, and workers who work between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. are paid 150 per cent of basic wage (except shift workers).
ILO factsheet: Qatar, regulatory framework governing migrant workers (updated December 2023)Annual leave after a year of service is at least three weeks for workers with under five years' service and at least four weeks after five years. Sick leave is up to two weeks at full pay after three months, plus four weeks at half pay.
ILO factsheet: Qatar, regulatory framework governing migrant workers (updated December 2023)End-of-service gratuity is at least three weeks of basic salary for each year of service, for a worker who has completed one year or more.
ILO factsheet: Qatar, regulatory framework governing migrant workers (updated December 2023)Workers should not work outside between 10 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. from 1 June to 15 September, and work must stop whenever the wet-bulb globe temperature passes 32.1 degrees Celsius.
ILO factsheet: Qatar, regulatory framework governing migrant workers (updated December 2023)A worker who believes heat stress threatens their health may stop working and complain to the Ministry, and may not be dismissed or penalised for it. Employers must pay for annual health check-ups for heat-stress risk.
ILO factsheet: Qatar, regulatory framework governing migrant workers (updated December 2023)A worker injured at work receives treatment at the employer's expense and full pay for the treatment period or six months, whichever is shorter, then half pay.
ILO factsheet: Qatar, regulatory framework governing migrant workers (updated December 2023)Law No. 19 of 2020, adopted on 30 August 2020, ended the requirement for a no-objection certificate from the employer before changing jobs.
ILO: Dismantling the kafala system and introducing a minimum wageLaw No. 18 of 2020 sets minimum termination notice at one month for employment of up to two years and two months beyond two years.
ILO: Dismantling the kafala system and introducing a minimum wageThe Workers' Support and Insurance Fund was established in 2019.
ILO: Overview of Qatar's labour reformsCompare all six Gulf countries side by side →
Checked against the linked pages on 2026-09-30. This is general information, not legal advice.
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Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE). Look the agency up in the SLBFE licensed-agency directory. If something is wrong, SLBFE takes complaints online and by phone.
Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs (ADLSA). The ministry runs the labour complaints service and the contract and work-permit services.
Every candidate completes the same intake checklist: Passport (First Page), Passport (Last Page), Photograph, CV, Education Certificate, Health Declaration, Consent. Sri Lanka adds: SLBFE registration, SLBFE pre-departure orientation certificate. The destination side (visa type, medical, attestation) depends on the employer and your role, and your specialist confirms what currently applies.
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