OFWs in KSA May Be Reduced by MOL
Apr 3, 2015
Overseas Filipino workers or OFWs in Saudi may face unemployment status if the Ministry of Labor will push through with their new proposal. The said proposal, which will affect thousands of OFWs, aims to calculate a company’s Saudization level by its expatriates wages and years of service. This will root out the poorly skilled workers in the company, retain the skilled expatriate and create more job opportunities for Saudi nationals. If approved, the Ministry of Labor may lessen the number of a foreign worker by calculating its work experience. Under the proposal, the computation will be: MOL also wants to take into consideration the wages expatriates earn. For them, a foreign worker who:
- earns between SR 7,000 - SR10,000 will be equivalent to one expatriate worker
- earns between SR10,000 - SR15,000 will be equivalent to three-quarters of an expatriate worker
- earns more than SR15,000 will be equivalent to half an expatriate worker
The Kingdom’s MOL would like to implement these to employ more Saudi nationals and lessen unproductive workers to retain the productive ones.
*source: arabnews