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Saudi Arabia to allow foreign workers to change jobs without employer’s permission

Saudi Arabia has introduced plans to ease restrictions imposed on foreign workers and make it easier for them to change employers. Riyadh said the proposals were introduced as a measure to make the Gulf kingdom commercially competitive and increase the appeal of the Saudi labour market. “These changes are not small changes, it’s huge,” Sattam Alharbi, a deputy minister at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development told Bloomberg. […]

today5 November 2020

International News

Qatar approves new bill to protect foreign workforce

The government of Qatar has approved a draft bill to set up a support fund for its two million-strong foreign workforce. Issa al-Nuaimi, Qatari labour minister, said that the fund would ensure overdue wages were paid to workers. The fund, called "Workers' Support and Insurance Fund", would operate independently under the auspices of the cabinet. The new measures, endorsed by the Qatari cabinet on Wednesday, include a minimum wage to […]

today26 October 2017

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