For resolving the demographic imbalance, Kuwait intends to replace the expatriates with the national manpower in different sectors. Hind Al-Sabeeh, the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Economic Development has emphasized this point.
The participants of the 4th meeting of the GCC labor and social affairs committees were honored in a ceremony held at Kuwait.
Khalifa Al-Ebri, the GCC Secretariat’s assistant secretary for economic affairs appreciated the efforts that were put in hosting the event. Speaking on this ceremony’s sidelines, Sabeeh stated that the GCC labor is allowed to move around the GCC states as per the qualifications.
Her response to a question regarding joint GCC market was that it is a GCC demand which is subject to studies. Not only the labor ministry but also other ministries are involved in the proposal. The companies which provided the citizen with job opportunities were thanked by Sana Al-Qimlas, Omniya Company’s CEO while he was addressing the event. A period of 15 days was given to the ministries, by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) for submitting the employees’ percentages list which was made for the year 2019-2020. This list indicated the number of expats who were allowed to function in different departments of the state.
As a part of the ‘Kuwaitization’ policy, required steps would be taken for the cancellation of non-Kuwaiti employees’ contracts. This will come into effect in case the ministries fail to send their comments on the list within the stipulated time.