The Labor Ministry has formed a special committee to study a report from the private companies on how to resolve the foreign labor recruitment.

The committee will analyze the issues and problems related to hiring of labors and will draw up an agreement that allows for recruitment from certain labor exporting countries mainly the domestic help.

The ministry is planning to have an agreement that protects nationals in the event of differences on certain articles between the ministry and its counterparts.

Dr. Ahmed Al-Faheed, the director-general for International Issues at the ministry, said a joint technical committee has been formed with their Indian counterparts to look into the challenges around the execution of the agreement.

“The Labor Ministry called on the private sector from the two sides to organize a joint meeting to look into the challenges as a preliminary step to sending recommendations to the joint government Committee to find a solution and solve the outstanding issues,” Al Faheed said.

“The Labor Ministry seeks to serve the needs of the Saudi citizens by hiring foreign workers in a way that protects their rights through domestic recruitment agreements,” he said.

“The ministry is now working on diversifying the sources and options of recruitment which will guarantee competitiveness between offices and companies,” he said.

About Napalese labors, who have been barred for a long time, he said: “Recruitment of the labors from Nepal has been stopped not only to Saudi Arabia but to all the Gulf countries. However negotiations with them is continuing till we get an acceptable agreement to protect both sides,” he said.

Faheed said an agreement signed between Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh is still in the process of being finalized. A large number of those applying for work in the Kingdom had met the requirements of the security tests as one of the conditions the Saudi team insisted on when signing an agreement between the two countries.

He said the other Gulf countries are also suffering from this domestic help problem, which has lead concerned businessmen to organize a “Gulf alliance” supporting their stand in this challenge.