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RIYADH The Ministry of Labor has no intention of retiring foreign workers attaining the age of 60, a senior official has said.
The continuation of work by foreigners crossing 60 depends on their contractual relations with their employers, Director of the ministry's media center, Abdulaziz Al-Shamsan, said. "As long as the foreign employee is capable of carrying out the duties assigned to him, the Ministry of Labor will not oblige his establishment to dismiss him," Al-Shamsan said.
Of the approximately 8 million foreign workers in the private sector, about 500,000 are above 60.
Al-Shamsan said the ministry is making efforts to encourage business owners to employ more Saudis and is also working out new modalities for the employment of nationalities who are exempted from deportation including the Burmese and the Palestinians instead of recruiting foreign manpower from outside.
Al-Shamsan said the labor ministries of the GCC countries are working out mechanisms to organize the work of foreigners in the six-member countries so as to exclude the marginal and unskilled laborers. "The GCC officials are currently considering a mechanism to authenticate the skillfulness of the foreign manpower before their recruitment," he said.
He expected the new arrangements to cut down the number of redundant foreigners who do not have clear contracts with the business owners. "These type of foreigners have created a default in the GCC labor market," he said.
According to Al-Shamsan, there are more than 350,000 private establishments in Saudi Arabia which are completely run by foreigners. "Directly or indirectly these activities will destroy the economy of the country and will keep away the nationals from getting near them," he said.
He said about 90 percent of the foreign workers are paid monthly salaries of less than SR2,000 and that about 70 percent of them receive salaries which are less than SR1,000 a month. This proves that they are unskilled laborers whose jobs will be difficult to Saudize, the official said.
According to him, the Nitaqat program was able to secure jobs for more than 400,000 Saudi men and 160,000 women in the private sector compared to 75,000 during the past five years.
He said the joint campaign between the Labor Ministry and the Passports Department has resulted in the deportation of about 150,000 violating foreigners before it was stopped by the decision of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to grant foreigners a three-month grace period to correct their status. "During the past 18 months, more than 840,000 foreigners have voluntarily left the Kingdom," he said.
RIYADH The Ministry of Labor has no intention of retiring foreign workers attaining the age of 60, a senior official has said.
The continuation of work by foreigners crossing 60 depends on their contractual relations with their employers, Director of the ministry's media center, Abdulaziz Al-Shamsan, said. "As long as the foreign employee is capable of carrying out the duties assigned to him, the Ministry of Labor will not oblige his establishment to dismiss him," Al-Shamsan said.
Of the approximately 8 million foreign workers in the private sector, about 500,000 are above 60.
Al-Shamsan said the ministry is making efforts to encourage business owners to employ more Saudis and is also working out new modalities for the employment of nationalities who are exempted from deportation including the Burmese and the Palestinians instead of recruiting foreign manpower from outside.
Al-Shamsan said the labor ministries of the GCC countries are working out mechanisms to organize the work of foreigners in the six-member countries so as to exclude the marginal and unskilled laborers. "The GCC officials are currently considering a mechanism to authenticate the skillfulness of the foreign manpower before their recruitment," he said.
He expected the new arrangements to cut down the number of redundant foreigners who do not have clear contracts with the business owners. "These type of foreigners have created a default in the GCC labor market," he said.
According to Al-Shamsan, there are more than 350,000 private establishments in Saudi Arabia which are completely run by foreigners. "Directly or indirectly these activities will destroy the economy of the country and will keep away the nationals from getting near them," he said.
He said about 90 percent of the foreign workers are paid monthly salaries of less than SR2,000 and that about 70 percent of them receive salaries which are less than SR1,000 a month. This proves that they are unskilled laborers whose jobs will be difficult to Saudize, the official said.
According to him, the Nitaqat program was able to secure jobs for more than 400,000 Saudi men and 160,000 women in the private sector compared to 75,000 during the past five years.
He said the joint campaign between the Labor Ministry and the Passports Department has resulted in the deportation of about 150,000 violating foreigners before it was stopped by the decision of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to grant foreigners a three-month grace period to correct their status. "During the past 18 months, more than 840,000 foreigners have voluntarily left the Kingdom," he said.
