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Join Date: 05 Mar 2015
Location:  Saudi ArabiaPosts: 85 |
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Agents: Tough norms encourage black market in recruitment |
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Agents: Tough norms encourage black market in recruitment
RIYADH: Investors and proprietors of recruitment offices have blamed the Ministry of Labor for the rise in the number of illegal brokers, saying that some of the rules are actually counterproductive and promoting black market. The ministry has put a ceiling on the maximum cost of recruitment from Bangladesh and Niger, besides fixing the period of recruitment at 60 days and fines in case of delay. Turki Al-Araini, an investor, told local media that the recent decisions of the ministry have forced some offices to stop receiving new applications until they clear earlier ones. He said majority of recruitment offices have officially objected to these decisions and notified the ministry. “They also hired a lawyer to move court against the ministry. The decisions are impractical and against the interest of citizens and recruitments offices, and are encouraging black market.†Nasir Al-Shatawi, another investor, said: “Our efforts to communicate with the ministry proved futile. We also appointed a spokesman and gave him the authority to negotiate and defend the rights of recruitment offices.†He said the ministry threatens recruitment offices with deductions from their bank guarantee and suspension of their licenses. “Inspection committees visited recruitment offices and pulled them up over trivial matters such as the absence of the owner or not working according to the new contract,†he said. Al-Shatawi described the recent decisions and the Musaned program as a sham that can’t be implemented or accepted by labor exporting countries. The ministry announced that citizens can issue visa through Musaned instead of finding a recruitment office, which led many offices to stop receiving applications. Official spokesman for recruitment offices Majed Mohammad Al-Haqqas said previous and new agreements made by the ministry since it took over negotiations with labor exporting countries are bound to fail. “Indonesia stopped negotiations with the former national recruitment committee because of the salary issue, and asked the ministry not to issue any visas for citizens.†He said that India has demanded an insurance of $2,500 from citizens who wanted to hire an uneducated maid because they don’t want to take any chances. Source:arabnews http://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/772401 |
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