As part of its efforts to bal ance the rights of employees with that of employers, Kingdom’s key labour authority has announced flexibility on its rules governing the work permit duration. Continue reading
SMEs Committee Praises LMRA
CEO of the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) Osama bin Abdulla Al-Absi said that LMRA is constantly interacting with all economic sectors in the kingdom in order to enable business owners overcome the obstacles they are facing through providing them with more facilities and incentives, in line with the sound directives of the wise leadership in this regard. Continue reading
LMRA’s CEO receives US Embassy’s official
Chief Executive Officer of the Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) Osama bin Abdullah Al-Absi today received Deputy Head of Political and Economic Department at the U.S. Embassy, Mrs. Rebecca Ann Severn. Continue reading
Unemployment scenario EXPATS DUBBED A CHALLENGE
Social Affairs Ministers' Executive Office Director meeting with LMRA CEO
While expatriates receive cheers from all quarters for their contributions towards the overall development of the Middle East, a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Labour official cautioned that it wouldn’t be ideal to adopt a myopic view on the increasing presence of expatriates vis-a-vis the unemployment scenario of the region. Continue reading
LMRA Appoints 19 new inspectors
Nineteen new inspectors have joined the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) as Judicial Officers.
Following the directives of the Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the newlyrecruited officials will contribute in detecting and controlling the increasing illegal employment phenomenon. Continue reading
Labour Market Regulatory Authority: Employers are obliged to have a Record for the Foreign Workers
Manama, July 28th (BNA) –Minister of Labour, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Labour Market Regulatory Authority, Jameel Bin Mohammed Ali Humaidan issued an edict to organize the records of the employers. The Edict, which includes six articles, obliges the employer who recruits foreign workers to have a record entitled “A Record for Registering the Foreign Workers.” Continue reading
`Labour Rules Govern Teachers’ Appointments’
While the confusions regarding the regulations on hiring expatriate housewives as teachers in private schools prevail, Education Ministry yesterday stated that it had no role in the matter concerning appointment of teachers. Continue reading
No legitimacy in retaining passports’
If the employer ” has a proper contract in place and his employees are paid on time as per the agreed terms, the employee will not want to `run away’. Stressing that there is no justification when it comes to retaining the passports of employees, top Labour officials in the Kingdom opined that no employee would ‘run away’ that easily if he/she is treated well by the employer. Continue reading
Al Dossary dismisses `deportation woes’
Allaying the fears of `depor tation’ of expatriate housewives working as teachers in private schools in the Kingdom, Labour Ministry Undersecretary Sabah Al Dossary, stated that `no decision’ has been taken in this aspect yet. Continue reading
Confusion Reigns In Private
The statements issued by Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) Chief on ‘work permit’ and deportation of expatriates’ homemakers, who are employed as teachers across the Kingdom, has, undoubtedly, landed many private schools in a state of perplexity. Majority of the school heads, in unison, said that they did not want to ‘avoid either paying the monthly levy of BD10 against each foreign employee or the application fee’ as stated by Ausamah Al Absi, and assured that they were willing to rectify legal irregularities, if there are any. Continue reading