His Excellency Dr. Ali bin Smaikh Al Marri, Minister of Labor, revealed that the ministry is in the process of establishing a national center for accreditation and testing of professions and skills for expatriate workers with the aim of raising production efficiency in state projects and reducing costs.
His Excellency explained during attending the weekly session of the Shura Council, today, Monday, to discuss efforts to localize jobs in the private sector, qualify and train the national workforce, and organize labor recruitment offices, that among the main priorities of the ministry in the current period is to develop policies and procedures for labor recruitment offices, by By finding solutions to the most prominent challenges facing the Ministry’s teams in implementing the development and modernization policy for the recruitment agencies sector.
He pointed out that the ministry implemented during the last period a series of actual measures to improve the work environment and preserve the rights of employers, indicating that it was decided to extend the testing period for domestic workers from 3 to 9 months, and set the maximum prices for the recruitment of domestic workers to prevent exaggeration in prices. Studying the application of insurance for domestic workers.
He pointed out that the Ministry of Labor carried out inspection campaigns on recruitment offices and places that might employ runaway workers, indicating that the licenses of 54 recruitment offices were revoked, as part of its ongoing inspection campaigns to ensure the application of the law and ministerial decisions.
