Expat Keep Your Job for Saudis Will Be Paid for Being Unemployed (1000/Monthly)

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

“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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Graduates with foreign degrees have better openings in job market

Many companies complain that Saudi employees, especially those educated in the Kingdom, are not properly educated and have little work ethics. However, as far as recruiters and human resources developers are concerned, having a foreign degree is useful on a personal level rather than an educational one.

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