12 January 2015, Thompson Reuters Zawya.com RIYADH – The Ministry of Labor has reorganized the application process for domestic workers’ visas, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday. Now only employers can submit applications for obtaining visas for domestic workers directly to the Ministry of Labor. If a visa application is submitted on behalf of […]
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7 January 2015, Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — An Indonesian expatriates union announced that it would not work with recruitment offices from the Kingdom and only cooperate with larger recruitment companies in order to preserve Indonesian expatriates’ rights, Makkah daily reported. Sources revealed that the union’s stance is an unofficial one because the Indonesian government did
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3 January 2015, Arab News The Ministry of Labor confirmed on Sunday that the ban on the recruitment of Ethiopian workers has not been lifted yet and is awaiting the approval of the ministry following its review of the regulations which guarantee the rights of both workers and their sponsors. “The Saudi and Ethiopian sides
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24 December 2014, Arab News There are at least 30 violations recorded on a daily basis involving the smuggling of maids into the Eastern Province from Bahrain and other Gulf nations, officials from local recruitment offices have said. They said that smuggling, aided by some recruitment companies, has increased because of the difficulty faced by
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28 November 2014, Arab News Manpower firms in the Saudi market responded to the Ministry of Labor’s pressure and published the prices and the cost of recruiting domestic workers on the “Mosanid” website before the deadline, next Monday. As of yesterday, 166 out of 329 certified recruitment offices in Saudi Arabia have published the costs
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7 October 2014, Arab News The annual recruitment of nearly 1.2 million foreign workers has hampered the Kingdom’s nationalization initiatives, said Saudi economists and experts, while urging the government to review its recruitment policy. “We recruit about 1.2 million foreign workers annually at a time when we have more than a million Saudi job seekers,”
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29 September 2014, Saudi Gazette via Yahoo News The head of the national committee for recruitment said relying on Indonesians is not enough to meet the huge demand for domestic workers in the Kingdom. “Indonesian authorities are insisting on high salaries for domestic workers in addition to personal information of their would-be sponsors, and we
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29 September 2014, Arab News The Labor Ministry has rejected Indonesia’s conditions for resuming the recruitment of domestic labor from that country, especially in light of the policy calling for diversification of the sources of employment and ongoing negotiations with other countries, according to ministry sources. The sources said that negotiations between the Ministry of
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21 September 2014, Arab News A total of 18 recruitment firms in the Kingdom will hire workers for contractors on a short-term basis to complete stalled projects, according to industry experts. These construction companies are, nevertheless, in need of enhanced, long-term recruitment initiatives to cover for the shortage of workers in the local market. “We
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6 September 2014, Arab News The Ministry of Labor has imposed a ban on the recruitment of labor from Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Deputy Labor Minister Moufarrej Al-Haqbani said the decision was taken as a preventive measure against the spread of the Ebola virus in the Kingdom, describing it as a
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