Private sector jobs chance for displaced Yemeni women

JEDDAH: Yemeni women who have corrected their residence status in the Kingdom will be allowed to work in the private sector, except in professions that are reserved for Saudi women, the Labour Ministry has announced.
Tayseer Al-Mufrej, director of Media Center at the Ministry of Labor, said a Yemeni woman who wishes to work in Saudi Arabia will have to first get her residential status corrected at the Yemeni embassy.
She will have to then get approval from Saudi or foreign individuals or companies to sponsor her and get a visitor card from the Passport Department, he said.
“The Passport Departments in the Kingdom will issue temporary visit cards, with “allowed to work” written on them to Yemeni women. The employers can then hire them through the Ajeer system by entering the names and numbers of their travel documents,” Al-Mufrej told Arab News.
The Directorate General of Passports, meanwhile, said that 128,601 Yemeni expatriates have got their residence status corrected so far.
Mohammad Ahmad Abdullah, deputy director-general of Al-Wadeea port, earlier told a local publication that a comprehensive plan has been devised to deal with the large number of refugees and support the customs department in verifying the identity of those entering the Kingdom.
Efforts are being stepped up to ease congestion at Al-Wadeea land port, which connects Yemen with Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah said that the customs department aims to boost the crisis management skills of its employees.
This necessitates on-job training for them, he said.
The customs also holds regular workshops on how to deal with crises and natural disasters in view of the growing number of Yemeni refugees.
Customs operations are being bolstered by sniffer dogs, in addition to latest equipment such as X-ray machines.
Priority is given to relief materials leaving for Yemen to ease the sufferings of the refugees in that country, he said.