19/12/2013
Fakih during a meeting with businessmen and businesswomen in Eastern Chamber yesterday
Minister of Labor: the additional support program launch for all facilities within two months
AlRashid: We emphasize the importance of measuring the impact of the Ministry's initiatives on the private sector, which suffers from career leakage
Labor Minister the engineer Adel Faqih stressed that the ranges achieved by Netaqat posts exceeded 15% until early this year, the demand for visas in the past two years decreased by 25% compared with previous years. Fakieh said during a meeting held by the East Chamber Wednesday 18 December 2013 in Dammam headquartered where he met businessmen in the region to 94 of the services provided by the Ministry of labor within electronic services patch, noting that 1.3 million employees remuneration exceeding 3,000 rials after the private sector reacted with the application of the minimum wage by 90%.
And for additional support, Faqih said that support Saudis wages as the scope of business, is now purely support for 44,000 teachers in community schools, and will include support for all other activities during the two months ' indicating that the human resources development fund support is higher than previous Fund programs for entities that comply with settlement programs which feature, up to 4, 000 per month per employee, for up to four years where the program is based on support for new staff and the upper limit of support varies by Rated entity in ranges.
Fakieh mentioned the gate ' together we improve ' one new Ministry initiatives which will be through community participation in labor market initiatives, noting that aims to monitor all comments and proposals from businessmen and opinion makers, specialists and experts on the drafts of the decisions announced by the Ministry of labor before formal adoption by the Governing Council to open community participation before drafting resolutions to unify visions and goals between the Ministry and stakeholders with regard to the labor market, workers and facilities.
Fakieh said that restriction 8 challenges to businesses in the Kingdom, as suggested by 27 to skip those other challenges, adding that the main challenge is the difficulty of obtaining employment of migrant or immigrant visas have been resolved through the continued transfer of sponsorship, even after the end of a job, and the Ager Portal companies and allowing the possibility of employment for rental, public and private sectors, adding that ' teen-ager ' aims to organize and adjust transactions between companies and their customers. The Ministry's policies guarantee leasing for the target domain and the teen-ager Portal provides inquiry service labor possible hire, serving notice to a new contract or amend an existing contract; the possibility to query the plants working incoming services, adding to the labor supply leased Charter Company in e-services.
He also said that the challenges facing the Ministry of labor is the slowdown in hiring Saudis, where the Ministry has to find quick solutions to the slowdown by supporting Saudi employees' wages according to the established in the program areas, and support the growth of the total wages in the facility. It also noted that the Ministry of Labor launched the program for the protection of wages in the private sector after the Ministry established minimum wages, stipulated that the minimum monthly wage of 3,000 to calculate working in average rate of resettlement, either to calculate the factor equals the monthly wage of 1,500 by half a factor when calculating the average rate of resettlement, adding that 1.3 million employees in the private sector exceed the salaries of 3,000 rials. Fakieh said that the challenges facing the Ministry penetrate and break some facilities to work with more than 4,000 closed facilities and stop the services by circumventing labor systems.
The Ministry also created a new mechanism for the calculation of the average number of employees for the purposes of calculating the average Saudi, Saudi workers is calculated and treated for resettlement on the rates equations databases the public institution for social security, which provided for the calculation of the registered working for the entity in the history of the account and is calculated by one of the purposes of resettlement rates equations. On service notice for temporary work that allows for the provision of employment services including employment registered if they are not in the Red range, the agent runs on the other side which recorded its license and his by construction activity or activity contracting for maintenance, cleaning, operation and maintenance, as well as to service the Advisory services and business activity, and the activity of the institutes and colleges, entities may exercise any economic benefit from this service as long as the beneficiary entity not in red range, as Individuals may make use of this service.
It was explained that the Ministry has sought to serve the business sector through the creation of a service notice of loan where no economic entity regardless of the type of the activity as long as it is not in the Red range to second one or more registered for employment, to work with the entity exercising an economic activity, the prohibition of non-contact's agent who recorded his license and his residence, entities may exercise the following economic activities make use of this service as long as it's not in the band.
Faqih said that the Ministry had expense balance visas for entities to its program ranges, where the Platinum range facilities to get visas to bring in new workers you want with care not to lose the Platinum range after obtaining new visas taking into account previous unused visas as well as used and not expats, either the green range installations can obtain visas to bring in the new desired expats where a green range has been divided into three levels, namely, Green is low and the average percentage of entities which fall within the third settlement of low rates of settlement required for green, and green range average includes entities that the average rate of resettlement is located within one-third of the settlement rates required for the band Green, green is high and includes entities that the average rate of resettlement which fall within the top one-third of the settlement required the green range, both yellow and Red is not entitled to apply for recruitment or transfer services.
The Chairman of the Chamber Abdul Rahman bin Rashed in the presence of the Secretary-General of the Chamber Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah Al-WABIL, and a large number of businessmen have put forward many initiatives for the Ministry of labor, over level, reform of labor market imbalances, and targeted for resettlement, development of national human resources, efficiency and upgrade the level of their performance, all of which are interrelated and integrated programs in the development process, including, but not limited to, initiatives and programs, such as: Catalyst, scopes, define working times, and correct the situation of migrant workers, the protection of wages, and here we wish to emphasize the importance of measuring the impact of these initiatives and other programs of the Ministry to the private sector. AlRashid said that the statistics on the labor market point to a marked increase in the number of fully employed through the application of the new terms reached 459 thousand citizens by the end of 2012. However, you should discuss an important subject affecting business and functional leak where business career high dropout rates.
Al-Rashid said that the labor market has seen over the past decade, many variables, increased reliance on the private sector to develop and create new job opportunities for citizens, and here, there is a shared responsibility of the Government and the private sector, where there is no alternative to cooperation and coordination between the Ministry of labor and business, and call all concerned to national action in this area, with an emphasis on the importance of increased incentives and support for the business sector to ensure continuity of development to create job opportunities for the citizens, and the need to subject any new initiatives or programs for labor market study and discussion with the private sector. In conclusion, the Minister of labor engineer Adel Faqih, received a souvenir from his Chamber's Chairman Abdulrahman bin Rashid Al Rashid.
