Posted on » Wednesday, March 14, 2012
THE Indian Embassy announced it is switching to an online visa application system, starting Saturday. Under the new system, all visa applications will have to be submitted online on the website indianvisaonline.gov.in/visa. Continue reading
Bahrain Roundup
Suad Hamada
14 March 2012, Computer training
for 15,015 Bahrainis
The Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) and e-Government Authority (EGA) agreed on a cooperation project (building capacities) which aims at developing the computer knowledge and raise awareness among Bahrainis. Continue reading
LMRA and EGA sign agreement on computer literacy
PM – 11/03/2012 Manama, March 11 (BNA) — The Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) and E-Government Authority (EGA) agreed on a cooperation project (building capacities) which aims at developing the computer knowledge and raise awareness among Bahrainis. Continue reading
RIGHTS FOR MAIDS
By Sandeep Singh Grewal , GDN- Posted on » Sunday, March 11, 2012
MANAMA: Bahrain is stepping up safeguards for its domestic workers. The Labour Market Regulatory Authority is in the final stages of preparing a unified contract that will outline recruitment conditions for the workers, and their rights and duties. Continue reading
Protection vow
By Sandeep Singh Grewal , Posted on » Sunday, March 11, 2012
A NEW contract has been drawn up for domestic workers in a bid to protect them from exploitation, revealed a top official. The key document, which is in its final stages, will specify the workers’ rights, duties and recruitment conditions. Continue reading
LMRA plans to rethink Bahrainisation quotas
Posted on » Tuesday, March 06, 2012
MANAMA: The policy of pro-rata Bahrainisation imposed on industrial and trade sectors is to be reconsidered.
The Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) is conducting a specialised study focusing on each sector. It plans to pay a series of field visits to assess the needs of each for foreign workers. Labour Minister and LMRA chairman Jameel Humaidan has sent a letter to the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI). Continue reading
Fees inappropriate
Posted on » Monday, March 05, 2012
By slashing LMRA fees in half from BD10 per month for each expatriate employed at a time when businesses are struggling to survive the onslaught by the senseless, aimless rioters, will only do more harm than good. Continue reading
LMRA considers the needs of private health sector
Manama: Feb. 22 – (BNA) LMRA CEO Osama Abdullah Al-Absi discussed the needs of private clinics during a meeting, held last Sunday (19 Feb. 2012) in the Authority’s Head Office with the Health Sector and Medical Services Committee in Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), and chaired by Dr. Khalid Al-Awadhi and attended by Dr. Hanan Marefi, Dr. Aysha Matar and Dr. Tariq Saeed. Continue reading
LMRA CEO meets with carwash companies directors
CEO meeting with car wash companies
Manama: Jan. 10 — (BNA)
The Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) CEO Osama Abdullah Al-Absi approved the implementation of a comprehensive survey for the automatic carwash sector in order to re-assess the sector’s needs for LMRA services to respond to latest developments in the local market. Continue reading
HRH Premier Chairs Regular Cabinet Weekly Meeting
(BNA) – The government is strongly resolved to consolidate the kingdom’s security and stability, the basic pillars of national development, through upgrading security bodies so as to enable them to carry out their national duties according to legal norms, and in compliance with the kingdom’s policies of respecting human rights, the Cabinet has asserted.
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