{"id":13264,"date":"2011-12-17T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T06:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=13264"},"modified":"2011-12-17T10:56:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T06:56:34","slug":"saudi-business-nitiqat-conformity-contortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/region\/gcc\/saudi-arabia\/saudi-business-nitiqat-conformity-contortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Business: Nitiqat Conformity Contortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The new\u00a0nitiqat<\/em>\u00a0program of Saudization of jobs and\u00a0hafiz<\/em>, the unemployment scheme are presenting opportunities for creative scammers and tinkerers, Saudi Arabia\u2019s media report. In the first, from\u00a0Saudi Gazette\/Okaz<\/em>, it appears to be the government trying to manipulate their own system. Low-paying, low-skill, low-social-status jobs are being taken out of the\u00a0nitiqat<\/em>\u00a0program. Rather than let Saudi women work as maids and nannies, those jobs have been removed, that is, no quota of Saudis filling the jobs, will be required. I suppose that having Saudi women taking those jobs and claiming minimum legal salaries would drive up the price of non-Saudis in the same jobs. It would at least sow dissension among them as foreign workers receive much lower-than-Saudi-minimum wages for the same work. They would start militating for raises and that would create problems.<\/div>\n

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The problems already exist, of course, due to the multilevel scale of salaries apportioned to Saudi and non-Saudi employees, with gradations among the latter based on nationality. The problem of society\u2019s deciding which jobs are \u2018suitable\u2019 for Saudi women, too, is an obnoxious one. If a Saudi woman wants to work in a job that meets her skill set, society should not be telling her that it\u2019s beneath her dignity.
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Nanny, female cleaner jobs canceled<\/a>
\nMunira Al-Mushkhiss | Okaz\/Saudi Gazette<\/p>\n

RIYADH \u2013 Female workers have expressed anger over the removal of low skills jobs from the Nitaqat Program website.<\/p>\n

Jobs for female cleaners, nannies and others in these categories have been replaced by vacancies for accountants, treasurers, cashiers and librarians that require a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

However, a source told Okaz\/Saudi Gazette that the Human Resources Development Fund and the labor and finance ministries are studying the low salaries provided to Saudi nationals in the private sector.
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Arab News<\/em>\u00a0reports that a young Saudi discovered that he had miraculously been employed by a company about which he knew nothing and to which he had never applied. He discovered, however, that he had been registered as an employee. Not only was he not drawing a salary for his supposed work, but the fake registration endangered his claim to unemployment benefits while he sought a job he really wanted.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t see how this can be just a mistake. It seems that the \u2018employer\u2019 was looking to boost the number of Saudis on his payroll in order to meet\u00a0nitiqat<\/em>requirements.<\/p>\n

Young Saudi lands \u2018job\u2019 without his knowledge<\/a>
\nARAB NEWS<\/p>\n

YANBU: A young Saudi man has filed a complaint at the labor office in Yanbu against a private establishment, which had employed and registered him at the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) without his knowledge, Al-Madinah newspaper reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Abdullah Massad Al-Rifaie said the establishment offered him SR5,000 to relinquish his complaint, but he refused.<\/p>\n

Narrating his story, Al-Rifaie said he received a text message on his mobile about two months ago that he had been registered at the GOSI by a private establishment in Yanbu for a monthly salary of SR1,500.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext day I went to the GOSI to ask about the contents of the message and was surprised to find myself being employed by a private establishment for which I did not apply,\u201d he said. Al-Rifaie said he asked the social insurance staff to give him data about the establishment or the phone number of its owner, but they declined to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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