DUBAI, 26 August 2006 — Indian workers in the United Arab Emirates represent some 50 percent of the labor force employed in the federation’s private sector, local media said yesterday quoting official data.
In the first half of 2006, Indian nationals amounted to some 45 percent of foreign workers arriving in UAE, increasing their number in the private sector to between 1.2 million and 1.3 million workers — or 50 percent of the total, Al-Ittihad newspaper said quoting a Labor Ministry official.
Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals represented 18 percent and six percent respectively, putting the share of the three South Asian countries at 74 percent of the total labor force in the sector, it added.
Arab workers meanwhile made up between 15-16 percent of the force, which included some 202 nationalities, the paper added.
