In a joint inspection campaign with the “MOI”
The Labour Marker Regulatory Authority (LMRA) announced that 16 manpower agencies were referred for legal action after failing to acquire the necessary licenses during a joint inspection campaign in coordination with the Ministry of Interior (MOI), represented by the General Directorate for Criminal Detection and Forensic Evidence and the Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs.
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The Labour Marker Regulatory Authority (LMRA) announced that 6 Manpower agencies were referred for legal action after failing to acquire the necessary licenses during a joint inspection campaign conducted in the Capital Governorate in coordination with the Ministry of Interior (MOI), represented by the General Directorate for Criminal Detection and Forensic Evidence and the Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs.
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The Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) announced that a joint inspection campaign conducted in the Capital Governorate, in coordination with the General Directorate of Crime Detection and Forensic Evidence and the Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs (NPRA) of the Ministry of Interior, has resulted in the detection of a number of violations related to Labour Market and Residency Laws and Regulations.
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The Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) announced that a joint inspection campaign, in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, has resulted in the detection of a number of violations related to the Labour Market and Residency Laws and Regulations. Continue reading
The Labour Market Regulatory Authority LMRA’s Chief Executive Officer CEO H.E. Mr. Jamal Abdulaziz AlAlawi underscored LMRA’s unrelenting interest in fostering the domestic labour sector, and facilitating related procedures for meeting the needs and expectations of citizens and residents easily and efficiently within the approved legal frames. “Last year, the LMRA expanded the issuance of licenses for manpower agencies in the field of domestic labour”, said H.E. Mr. AlAlawi. Continue reading
Hourly-paid workers posing as nurses and care assistants, who are neither trained nor licensed, are being offered illegally by rogue manpower agencies and putting lives at risk. Continue reading
LMRA calls on businesses, companies, and individuals who engage in the activity of “Manpower Agencies” in any form and under any name such as providing temporary domestic employees by the hour or providing cleaners for homes by the hour, or providing caregivers and nurses or others without obtaining a “Manpower Agency” license from the LMRA to stop immediately and rectify their position in accordance with the provisions of Article (28) of Law No. (19) of 2006, and the ordinance regulating this license No. (3) for the year 2014 regarding the regulation of licenses for manpower agencies and the procedures in force at the authority, to avoid legal accountability. Continue reading
LEGAL action has been taken against 61 firms as part of a nationwide crackdown on rogue manpower agencies hiring domestic staff, including undocumented workers, on an hourly basis for cleaning services. Continue reading
Bahrain: More than 100 manpower agencies could lose their licences because they refuse to pay a BD10,000 deposit as part of rules to regulate the recruitment field in Bahrain.
A December 31 deadline has been set by the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA), which requires recruitment firms to have the money deposited in a bank account to have their licences renewed. Continue reading
Concerns that increasing numbers of foreign teenage girls are landing jobs as housemaids in Bahrain have prompted calls for tighter controls on manpower agencies. It has emerged that two of five female domestic workers housed by a shelter in Bahrain in the past six months were 16-year-olds from Ethiopia. Continue reading