Saudi Arabia Tells Companies - Sack Expats First, then Local
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Dubai, Jan 25: In a move that may affect hundreds of expatriates, including Indians, Saudi Arabia has asked all companies in the kingdom to fire foreigners first if they have to layoff staff.
"Labour offices are instructing companies to start with foreigners first if they have to sack staff," the 'Saudi Gazette' quoted Muhammad Al-Hamdan, Head of the Labour Office in the Eastern Province, as saying.
In fact, Al-Hamdan said that Labour Office inspectors, working for the Ministry of Labour, have started investigating companies believed to have sacked Saudi staff, because of the global financial meltdown.
"Businesses are not permitted to fire Saudi staff and must retain them by transferring them to other jobs made available within a firm by firing expatriate staff," he said.
According to government figures, the unemployment rate among Saudis is 5.4 per cent. However government data shows it is closer to 11 per cent and private economists say the figure could be much higher.
In the Eastern Province, the Labour Office has visited major companies like SABIC or Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation, whose profits plunged 95 per cent last year as a result of the global slowdown, to ascertain jobs of Saudis are not affected.
The Labour Office has a history of protecting the jobs of Saudis in the private sector in troubled times. Al-Hamdan said that Labour Office had intervened a few years ago during a financial crisis that affected contracting companies, by getting Saudis transferred to different posts in the same companies instead of letting management fire them.
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yes wat. tts the way.
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unfortunately, they'd have no one to run their companies, take out their trash, and all that..
Saudi Arabia is filled with a bunch of idle youths with degrees in theology, unable and unskilled at anything other than being an imam.. and how many can their mosques take?
which was why they are a breeding ground for people like Osama..
now.. the country will turn into a clusterfuck if they start to sack foreigners.. the place will turn into a bigger shithole than it already is..
sit back and watch the same idle youth who will blame the west and everyone else for their shortcomings.. and then do the only thing they are qualified to do: wage "holy war"
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Then we'll have a real War on Terror.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
unfortunately, they'd have no one to run their companies, take out their trash, and all that..
Saudi Arabia is filled with a bunch of idle youths with degrees in theology, unable and unskilled at anything other than being an imam.. and how many can their mosques take?
which was why they are a breeding ground for people like Osama..
now.. the country will turn into a clusterfuck if they start to sack foreigners.. the place will turn into a bigger shithole than it already is..
sit back and watch the same idle youth who will blame the west and everyone else for their shortcomings.. and then do the only thing they are qualified to do: wage "holy war"
thats right they simply pay foreigner to help them to built their country.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
unfortunately, they'd have no one to run their companies, take out their trash, and all that..
Saudi Arabia is filled with a bunch of idle youths with degrees in theology, unable and unskilled at anything other than being an imam.. and how many can their mosques take?
which was why they are a breeding ground for people like Osama..
now.. the country will turn into a clusterfuck if they start to sack foreigners.. the place will turn into a bigger shithole than it already is..
sit back and watch the same idle youth who will blame the west and everyone else for their shortcomings.. and then do the only thing they are qualified to do: wage "holy war"
west also got alot theologist, it's legacy, people always try to find out the meaning of life, is that wrong? -
Originally posted by rokkie:
west also got alot theologist, it's legacy, people always try to find out the meaning of life, is that wrong?
Nothings wrong, just that if you have too many, who's gonna build the nation? -
the most powerfull country in the world,US, still there are 90% of people is religious, its display the importance of religion, if you say there is too many theogolist, i tell you, there is never"too many" for religious people, for religious people, you can resist eating(fasting), dress(veil), housing, but you can not resist the "truth of life",i recite what they said