Also, in their collective statement, the interior and labor ministries of the government have warned both the employers and concerned persons providing residence to these labors, of a 2 years imprisonment.
The Saudi government had formulated a strict qualification criteria for foreign workers in its labor laws, the previous month. According to the recent changes, the sponsors or employers cannot permit their employees to work somewhere else and vice versa, whereby the workers will be unable to explore any other opportunities out of their job circles.
Simultaneously, the Saudi labor ministry started a clear-out in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) against their international owners.
It encouraged all the legal workers who have not yet renewed their expired permits to avail the amnesty without penalty opportunity along with “special measures” that would permit them to go for a changing employer request on the basis of specific conditions.
The official pardon is not for the workers who made their way inside the oil-rich Gulf state unlawfully.
Saudi Arabia is a land of opportunities for almost eight million international workers, most of them are working at a low pay rates as per official statistics. Yet according to economists, there are nearly 2 million illegal workers here in the country.
The basic aim behind launching these new labor laws, by the concerned ministries, is to provide employment opportunities for a huge unemployed Saudi population.
The most inversely affected ones by the imposition of these laws will be the low paid nationals of Yemen, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
As confirmed by the immigration service of the kingdom, already two hundred thousand people were expelled out till the end March this year.
The labor ministry also stated that in almost two hundred fifty thousand SMEs, they were only expatriates were employed and not a single Saudi national.
According to reports issued so far, these laws will impact at minimum 2 million foreigners to say good bye to their livelihood. Lately, hundreds of illegal international workers from Yemen; Pakistan and India were arrested because of the same illegal permit and labor law issues.
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