Al-Marsad newspaper: The owner of a recruitment office, Abdulaziz Al-Ghamdi, commented on a question that stated, “Is there a possibility to reduce the prices of recruiting domestic workers?”
Al-Ghamdi said, during an intervention via “Sky” on the “Saudi Street” program: “During the most famous recruitment companies, they will be in the stock market, and the state can buy them or government institutions and citizens, and in the end the service will reach the same prices.”
He pointed out: “I have external limitations and costs that we cannot overcome, and no one can give you the service for free.”
And he continued, “We have a crisis in the recruitment of domestic workers from Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh,” noting: “The Saudi embassy in Bangladesh does not give licenses what it gives completion licenses to offices for work through Musaned, and therefore I am limited to specific offices, which causes prices to rise.”
He continued, “I have determinants to reduce prices that are outside the will of the Ministry of Labor, the recruitment system and the sector itself.”
He concluded: “I have the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I want cooperation from them, and we hope to convert the value-added tax, such as the real estate transaction tax, to the foreign transfer tax at a certain rate,” adding: “The rise in recruitment prices has internal and external reasons, which must be addressed.”