The companies would be spread out over various regions of the Kingdom. More than 600 offices are expected to enter the alliance with a capital exceeding SR100 million.
The investors said the new rules in its current framework would not suit their ambitions and investment targets. They consider it a waste of money and time if no major amendments are made.
Only now do we hear owners of recruitment offices protesting. Only now they object to the guidelines because these do not help their greedy investment plans.
Where are those investors who made the public bitterly suffer due to the current problems with domestic workers? Only citizens are paying the price for every crisis.
We have heard of consolidated contracts to recruit workers but we haven't seen any implementation of this yet.
Citizens lost huge amounts of money thanks to recruitment offices. Contracts were breached when workers bargained for salary raises, escaped or refused to work.
Ramadan is approaching while citizens are suffering from the high fees recruitment offices charge, which reach between SR15,000 and SR25,000 for the transfer of iqamas (work permits), rather than the wages of housemaids that jumped up from SR800 to SR3,500. What are the investors’ roles during such a critical situation?
Forty years have passed since the emergence of our recruitment market and still it lacks organization. It still exploits people, while the phenomenon of runaway workers and the outrageous increase in wages does not happen even in our neighboring countries.
Citizens are waiting eagerly for the establishment of these companies hoping to see better services, organization, obligations fulfilled and enforcement of their rights.
