Foreigners will no longer be allowed to work in Saudi Arabia’s numerous shopping malls, the labour ministry announced Thursday, in the latest measure to boost employment of Saudis. The kingdom has intensified efforts to develop more jobs for its citizens under a wide-ranging drive that began last year to diversify the oil-dependent economy. Known as … Read more
Saudi Arabia will still need even more Filipino workers despite its “Saudization” policy, Manila’s labour secretary said Wednesday following a meeting between Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Saudi King Salman. To show Filipinos that they are still welcome, the Saudis are even willing to allow more than 100 “runaway” Filipino workers to return home, Secretary … Read more
Seventeen years after first setting foot in Saudi Arabia, Dominic Steck shipped his two cats and returned to Germany with his wife and school-age children, who hardly know their homeland. As Saudi Arabia steps up efforts to employ more of its own people, and with economic growth slowing, the ranks of well-paid white-collar expatriates like … Read more