employment

Al-Marsad newspaper: The writer, Dr. Badr bin Saud, said that the Ministry of Human Resources did not study the domestic labor market in the Kingdom sufficiently and that it excludes Filipino workers from most of its procedures and does not try to confront irregular brokerage operations and American sites targeting the Kingdom, the most important of which is the Great Uber, in addition to employment The Asian who denigrates the Saudi business owner on Facebook.

Solution Admission employment

He added, in his article published by Al-Riyadh newspaper entitled “Solutions for recruiting domestic workers without results,” that the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources is trying to control the pace of the file of recruiting domestic workers, as much as possible, but it is always accused of negligence, and perhaps it is a true accusation in some aspects, and one of the simplest evidences against it, The decision issued by the Ministry a short time ago, in which the transfer of sponsorship of domestic workers who abstained from work does not take place until after ninety days. Employment contracts are in force to date. Labor brokers in some Asian countries have certainly reported, with the broker’s agreement with domestic workers to work for a period of three months, and then refrain from it, which means loss and damage to the employer, while the domestic worker is rewarded by returning through another office, In a never-ending cycle of fraudulent systems.

ceiling salaries

The writer also criticized the salary ceiling set by the ministry for Thai workers, and not to exceed $500, and it was rejected by labor export offices in Thailand, as it said that it would not accept less than $600, which indicates that the Ministry of Human Resources did not study the Thai labor market before Determining the ceiling, because Thailand has turned into a rich country, and its gross domestic product is up to 500 billion dollars, compared to about 700 billion dollars in the Kingdom, and the Thai society brings domestic workers from Vietnam, and its labor is professional and not domestic. It specializes in areas, most notably airlines, technology and medical personnel, and it can work in car maintenance and contracting work, and there are those who expect it to acquire 15% of the total labor market of all kinds in the Kingdom, when it attends.

protection Interests offices Recruitment

He pointed out that the specialists are demanding that the recruitment file be returned to the Saudi Ministry of Interior, because it is best able to protect the interests of recruitment agencies and employers, and thus impose its will on the labor-exporting offices, especially the Philippines, whose workers were excluded from most electronic procedures, and still depend on paper transactions and submission. to her local office in the Kingdom, and then send it by express mail to the Philippines, and the transaction may take four months if the owner is lucky, before the worker is linked to the customer and the contract is electronically documented.

Resources Humanity

But he explained that, of course, the situation was not ideal when the Saudi Ministry of Interior received the recruitment file, and the evidence is that the Ministry of Human Resources, during the period between 2020 and 2021, withdrew the license from more than four hundred recruitment offices, for their illegal practices, and the problem is that it does not prove In the case of the issue of nationalities that can be brought in, it has changed within one year from 21 countries, with a possible increase of 8 after negotiation, to 17 countries and recently settled at 14 countries. 5 countries, provided that Thailand is replaced by Sri Lanka with regard to domestic workers, and the ceiling of recruitment costs amounted to four thousand five hundred dollars without tax, and did not fully exceed three thousand and seven hundred dollars in 2016, noting that the recruitment office commission often does not exceed 800 dollars, and in the custody of human resources, the cost of insurance for the recruitment office increased from 120 thousand dollars to 200 thousand dollars.

costs Recruitment

He explained that the total number of domestic workers in the Kingdom, according to the 2021 statistics, is more than three million five hundred thousand, and I believe that the (known) service that is limited to domestic workers is better than the services of national and foreign recruitment offices and companies on the Musaned platform, or the profiles of workers submitted with their knowledge, in which Saving 50% of the recruitment costs, and most importantly, it blocks the way on American sites, interested in reconciling the employer and the worker in the Kingdom, of the type (Great Oper). Saudis accept it because it focuses on nannies, domestic workers and home care providers, and from the nationalities desired in the circles. Saudi Arabia.

Locations suspicious

He concluded his article that the suspicious websites contributed to the leakage of domestic workers and their escape from their workplaces in the Kingdom, along with Asian websites on social media, specifically Facebook, which strive to distort the image of Saudi employers, blackmail them and fabricate lies about them, and escalate their fabrications at the institutional level in the countries of domestic workers and elsewhere. And that it may be exploited by local brokers or even those with special agendas, and the Ministry of Human Resources must work with the participation of the concerned authorities to ban it or hold its owners accountable, or, at the very least, correct its fallacies and replace it with reliable sites for direct reconciliation between the two parties to the contractual relationship in domestic workers, Without intermediaries, government supervision and reasonable prices.