"There’s no question that Saudi Arabia has had problems with illegal workers. Workers whose paperwork is ‘irregular’, to say the least, confuse and compromise the ability of Saudis to find work, repatriate hundreds of millions of Saudi Riyals to their home countries, and cost the Saudi economy dearly. The government has been taking actions to rectify the situation, but those actions have come largely at the cost of the expat worker.
What is needed, Somayya Jabarti argues in Saudi Gazette, is to identify the root of the problem: the Saudi employers who game the system and rob their expat workers. There are numerous Saudis who create phantom companies that produce no real goods or services. Instead, they act only as a clearinghouse for manpower. Using their Saudi nationality, these business owners get permission to bring in foreign workers, but then turn around and sell them to the highest bidder, all the while also taking a piece of the worker’s salaries. Go after these companies, Jabarti says, and you’ll reduce the problems of illegal workers."
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