Abu Dhabi: Saudi Ministry of Human Resources teams made more than 18,845 inspections of various companies across the Eastern Region in December, to ensure employers abide by market rules, local media reported.
Some 3,667 violations were issued to 3,322 companies, while 14,139 other companies were found to be law-abiding, Aref Al Shahri, director of the region’s inspection department, said.
Inspection teams, he added, have recovered SR630,000 from recruiting agents of domestic workers, who failed to abide contracts signed with clients.
Saudi Arabia resumed hiring domestic workers in October after a hiatus of nearly seven months with the outbreak of COVID-19.
The Human Resources Ministry’s domestic labor recruitment website Musaned is accepting applications for new contracts, with the country phasing out other recruitment agents.
Abu Dhabi: Female inspection teams from the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development have carried out more than 1,000 visits in six months to women-only businesses to ensure owners adhere to work regulations.
Private schools, workshops and sports clubs were also visited, in addition to some small women’s projects across the capital Riyadh.
Inspectors recorded 100 violations, most of them related to employment of foreign workers in jobs restricted to Saudis and employment of men in jobs restricted to Saudi women, in addition to violations of the absence of work and medical insurance contracts.
The ministry said the work of female inspectors is not limited to issuing tickets, but also extends to professional counseling for female employees in the private sector and answering their inquiries related to rights and duties.
Abu Dhabi: The Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development has revealed its most prominent targets in the 2021 budget, which included the employment of 115,000 Saudis in various sectors who had not previously entered the labor market or had been out of work for more than three months, local media reported.
The ministry indicated that it aims to localise accounting, engineering, communications and information technology professions.
It is also aiming to regulate self-employment activity, in addition to launching a platform for issuing self-employment documents, as well as linking with the Ejar platform through a mechanism requiring the owner of a business to disclose the residence of workers.
Saudi Arabia: Starving workers go on strike after no wages for ten months
Workers from the Huta Marine group staged a sit-in after they were forced to subsist on chilli and water without salaries for nearly a year
Workers said Huta had shut off electricity and water to their work camp in Jeddah (Screengrab) By Published date: 16 December 2020 14:30 UTC | Last update: 3 months 2 weeks ago
Workers from Saudi Arabia s largest marine construction company have gone on strike after not receiving their salaries for the last ten months, forcing some to go hungry and beg for food.
The Huta Marine group employs at least 6,000 people who work in Saudi Arabia from around the world, according to the company s website.