JEDDAH — The Labor Ministry’s decision to reduce the stay of expatriates in companies and establishments falling within the yellow Nitaqat zone will affect about 300,000 foreigners, according to a senior official of the ministry. Director of the ministry’s information center Taysir Al-Mofarrej said as many as 295,308 expatriates will be affected by the decision. “These workers constitute about 3.6 percent of the total expatriates living in the Kingdom who are more than 8.2 million,” he said. The ministry had said the stay of the workers in yellow Nitaqat companies would be reduced to four years from the present six starting October 25 and will be further cut to two years from next April. – SG
The company spends few months to train their staff. Once the worker gets experienced and do the job perfectly they will send him back home and bring a new expat to train again. Do they really care about the employeers effort and investment to train those expats.
Even illegals when they come, the intentions are to stay for reasonably longer periods otherwise they would not take the risk. Similarly those expats who come here and got jobs for meager salaries, the intention is continuity for a longer period. At least to cover their cost to acquire a new job and then start saving and helping their families abroad. Since it takes at least 4 years to break even, then they have actually wasted their time and efforts. Short period contracts will carry high cost.
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