By BASMA MOHAMMED
EXPATRIATES working at mosques find themselves trapped in Bahrain because no one is paying for their visas, it has emerged.
They tend to stay in the country after their visas are expired because they fear losing their jobs if they return to their countries for new ones to be issued.
By MOHAMMED AL A’ALI
LABOUR Minister Dr Majeed Al Alawi yesterday assured Bahrain’s workforce that all efforts are being exerted to ensure the availability of jobs despite the global financial crisis.
“The unemployment ghost will continue haunting us, as it does other countries due to the financial crisis the world is going through,” he said.
A CLEARING agent who forged a previous client’s signature to illegally acquire a visa was jailed for three years yesterday.
The High Criminal Court convicted the 45-year-old Bahraini man of fraud and forgery.
By Noor Toorani
A CLEARING agent, who forged the signature of a businesswoman on two visa application forms, was jailed for 12 months yesterday.
The High Criminal Court convicted the Bahraini man, 44, of fraud and forgery.
By MAI AL KHATIB
A programme to help ambitious young Bahrainis reach the top of their professions will have trained 6,500 employees within the next three years.
The scheme is called the Tamkeen Career Progression Programme and has already helped many to move up the pay scale and build a successful career path.
Fake jobs firm under probe
By BEGENA P PRADEEP
AN investigation has been launched in India over allegations that a travel agency has tried to con almost 500 people out of money by advertising fake jobs in Bahrain. The GDN had reported earlier that the firm planned to collect recruitment and visa fees from 492 Indian workers by promising them jobs that didn’t exist.
MANAMA
The rate of unemployment in Bahrain stood at 3.3 per cent last month, Labour Minister Dr Majeed Al Alawi said yesterday.
Figures released yesterday show 4,828 jobless Bahrainis out of a workforce of 145,000.
By REBECCA TORR
BAHRAINI women represent 34.3 per cent of the total national workforce – the largest representation of women in the GCC, it was claimed yesterday.
This compares to 23.5pc in 2001 and only five per cent in 1971, said health Ministry Assistant Under-Secretary for Primary Care and Public Health Dr Mariam Al Jalahma.
By SOMAN BABY
FOREIGN workers must regularly check their legal status on the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) website to ensure they have not been unjustly reported by their employers as runaways, officials said yesterday.
The call came following an increase in the number of expatriate workers registered as runaways at the LMRA by their employers.
I don’t understand one thing about the working system at the ministries and government offices and that is why it takes aeon for a simple task like updating records on computers when it is just a click away. A case in point is the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA).
Our company was one of the first to register its employees with the LMRA. After everything was done, we got our passports with renewed residence permits and new updated CPRs.