Recently my company renewed my work permit online – with Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA). From the time they took my passport, I found that the work permit renewal was done in just one day.
And the very next day, on the expat portal section of LMRA website – I could see the details of my visa with the renewed date.
By Soman Baby
MORE than 5,000 companies could soon be fined for refusing to pay fees to the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA).
Fines will be introduced from today for companies that continue to ignore the new fees.
By SOMAN BABY
EXPATRIATES with expired visas will have no more chances to renew them after Wednesday, a Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) official declared yesterday.
Since the LMRA took over the responsibility of issuing work visas in July, people whose visas expired in the last 12 months were given a chance to renew them, said LMRA e-services and acting public relations manager Waheed Al Balushi.
By SOMAN BABY
MANAMA: Employment in Bahrain shot up by 10.5 per cent during the third quarter of this year, it was revealed yesterday.
Most of the jobs went to expatriates, with Bahraini employment up by 3.5pc, compared to a 4.1pc growth in the previous quarter, said the report published in the Bahraini Labour Market newsletter.
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.