“The sponsorship system ... doesn’t work.."

In a Saudi Gazette article today, a executive of Manpower, a global employment services provider, emphasized the importance of Saudi Arabia overhauling its labor market.

“Saudi (Arabia) is developing a lot of individual bilateral treaties to bring the right kinds of skilled workers,” Arkless said. “But the 19th century labor construct in the country is doing the country no favors from a competitiveness point of view.”

“The sponsorship system ... doesn’t work, so we need to reform the labor policy,” Arkless said at Fourth Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh.

David Arkless is a speaker in the just concluded Fourth Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh.

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