Kuwait: Government ministries have begun firing expats, especially those working in non-technical camps, Al Rai reported.
A source told Al Rai: “The procedure of firing expats running in government agencies will take up position and we will tell them to make sure the paintings are not affected.
More than 50% of expats running for subcontractors, hired through government agencies, will likely be fired in 3 months. Those hired through departments have already been transferred to subcontractors corporations in government departments.
The head of the parliamentary human resources progress committee, MP Khalil Al Saleh, told Al Rai: “The committee has taken concrete steps to address the challenge of demographic imbalance. We will have an assembly next week to prepare a report, with knowledge and statistics, which we will provide to the National Assembly.
The Member added: “We have achieved what we agreed to solve the problem, especially since there are expats in non-technical positions in the sector.”
Al Saleh insisted on the closure of Kuwait’s file, which deals with expats performing non-technical work. He called on the Public Service Commission to accede to Resolution 11/2017, which deals with Kuwait’s achievement in the public sector, which would lead to 100 per cent of the public sector workforce being Kuwaiti.
Kuwaiti, a government policy introduced in 2018, aims to replace balance so that most work is carried out through Kuwaiti and not through expats. In December 2019, 120,000 expats, out of the 3 million living in Kuwait, run in the public sector. In 2018, about 50,000 expats working in government agencies were fired.
Currently, 90% of Kuwait’s 1.4 million other people paint in the public sector.
In recent months, there has been a growing call from government professionals and parliamentarians to address the demographic imbalance in Kuwait. Last week, the Interior Ministry announced that it would begin reviewing the overdue apartment rents of 70,000 expats stranded due to the COVID-19 crisis. The procedure scheduled to begin this week will determine who will be allowed to return to Kuwait.
In June, Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah proposed a percentage of expats of 70 to 30%.
In addition, a month ago, the legislative commission of the National Assembly ruled that a bill on constitutional expatriate fees. The invoice has not yet been proposed, however, it has been passed by some members. If the bill is approved, about 800,000 Indians could be forced to leave Kuwait.
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