Wednesday 4 November 2020

#SaudiArabia pledges more rights for foreign workers | Financial Times

Saudi Arabia pledges more rights for foreign workers | Financial Times

Saudi Arabia is to allow 10m expatriate workers to change jobs and leave the country without their employers’ permission, as it seeks to modernise its controversial kafala system, diversify the oil-reliant economy and create more jobs for Saudi nationals. 
Since the kingdom discovered oil in the 1930s, it has been reliant on foreign labour, from western engineers who helped found the hydrocarbons industry to millions of low-income labourers manning the construction boom triggered by those oil riches. 
But to date, overseas workers have been tied to their sponsor, who is responsible for their legal status in a system known regionally as kafala. Rights groups have criticised this system as akin to indentured labour and say it leaves workers vulnerable to abuse. 
From March 2021, foreigners, who make up a third of the population, will be able to move jobs and secure exit visas electronically without the prior approval of their employers, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development announced on Wednesday.

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