A new proposal brought by Shoura member Salem Al-Mari two years ago for monthly unemployment benefit of SR1,000 until such a time as work is found is going around the news this past few days. And the proposal is now in limbo.
Saad Mareq, who voted against the move, said the real problem was “not in who pays the unemployed, but instead in how to create jobs”, while Zain Al-Abedeen described unemployment in Saudi Arabia as “unemployment by choice”. “Many unemployed people refuse to take certain types of jobs,” Al-Abedeen said.
What this proposal means is that a Saudi who does not want to work will be paid a 1,000 monthly allowance. I say does not want to work quite literally because with all types of jobs in the expatriates hand, i smile at the logic that there are no jobs for Saudis. There is a glaring difference between unemployment by circumstances and unemployment by choice.
Another opposer to unemployment benefit, Abdulrahman Al-Yami, described the whole proposal as “skipping over the main problem.”
More like adding insult to injury :)
Source: SaudiGAzette
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