.PNG "The purpose of Kuwaitization of jobs is to empower local workers or to exclude expatriates It no longer has a place in Kuwait The accelerated and “hasty” steps to Kuwaitize jobs and liberal professions revealed major gaps, with Kuwaitis feeling the brunt of the loss of skilled workers. Some voices began criticizing this approach, which they described as improvisational, as it was supposed to empower local workers within a gradual approach that ensures that the Kuwaiti worker and employee acquire the necessary skills. KUWAIT - Kuwait has accelerated steps to nationalize government and private jobs, and in recent months this path has taken a methodological dimension, amid questions as to whether the matter is limited to an official move to provide jobs for local workers and absorb the numbers of the unemployed, or whether this trend has other backgrounds in relation to a feverish desire to exclude Foreign labor fueled by the obsession of imbalance demographics. Official announcements continue to replace local workers in many sectors, and local media revealed on Sunday that the Parliamentary Committee of Interior and Defense agreed to set up an implementation mechanism in the Ministries of Interior and Defense, to Kuwaitize administrative and secretarial jobs and office paper work, so that the appointment in them is in a system that gives priority to Kuwaitis, They are followed by those of undetermined nationalities who were born in Kuwait or who carried the census in 1965. Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Muhammad Al-Faris announced last week that all jobs in the oil sector, including legal affairs jobs, will be Kuwaitiised, in the context of a government project to localize government jobs in eleven job specializations, 100 percent by September 2022. Observers and civil society activists believe that there are many motives that move the authority to accelerate the pace of the replacement of local workers in Kuwait in this way and how it seems improvised and not based on scientific foundations in relation to the requirements of the labor market. Observers point out that one of the most prominent motives is the attempt to address the current imbalance in the demographic structure, which for many years has been in favor of expatriates. And the government had previously announced last September the formation of a committee to discuss mechanisms aimed at reaching 70 percent of the population, compared to 30 percent of the expatriates. Observers say that this marginal shift towards the localization of jobs is not without shortcomings, as the expatriate labor has formed, since the establishment of the state, the cornerstone in building its economic renaissance. For local labor without a real qualification of the latter is something that will certainly have negative repercussions. Recently, there have been complaints about the severe shortage of skilled labor, as Kuwaitis are finding it difficult today to find a worker to sew the “dishdasha”, which is a traditional dress worn by Kuwaiti men, especially on religious occasions such as Ramadan, and the search for a plumber has become like someone looking for a needle in a haystack. Observers believe that this recorded shortage is the result of hasty governmental trends regarding the issue of Kuwaitiization of jobs and professions, which in a short period of time transformed Kuwait into an environment inhospitable to expatriates, noting that it was necessary to adopt a gradual policy that would allow Kuwaitis to acquire the necessary expertise and skills. Kuwaiti official data revealed that 2,631 expatriates left work in the government in its various sectors during 2021, reducing their numbers at the end of last December to 89,073 expatriates, compared to 92,036 expatriates at the end of December 2020. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper, “Al-Anbaa”, in its issue issued on Sunday, it was clear that the most prominent parties that the arrivals left during the year 2021 are headed by Kuwait Airways, the Ministry of Health, the Kuwait Flour Mills and Bakeries Company, the Public Transport Company and Kuwait University. Seventeen authorities and institutions and destinations with independent budgets accounted for the largest percentage of expatriates leaving the government sector by about 43 percent, with 1,121 residents, 79 percent of whom left work for Kuwait Airways, with 882 expatriates and expatriates, bringing their number to 4133 compared to 5015 last year. While the number of expatriates in the Public Corporation for Housing Welfare decreased by 88, from 252 in 2020 to 164 at the end of last year, the number of workers at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research decreased from 702 expatriates to 656 expatriates at the end of 2021. And 17 ministries accounted for 36% of the expatriates leaving the government sector, with 954 male and female expatriates. in the year 2020. Kuwaiti officials are satisfied with this rapid pace of replacing expatriate workers with local workers, noting that it is possible to achieve the desired goal of Kuwaitization before the deadlines set in the announced government plans. 2,631 expatriates left work in the government in its various sectors during 2021, reducing their numbers at the end of last December to 89,073 expatriates According to the Kuwaiti newspaper, the number of citizens working in various government sectors increased during 2021 by 24 thousand and 21 male and female citizens, as their number in the ministries increased by 18 thousand and 56 male and female citizens during the year, bringing their total to 264 thousand and 65 male and female citizens at the end of 2021 compared to 246 thousand in the previous year. The number of citizens in government departments increased by 2,314, bringing the number at the end of 2021 to 24,3 citizens. Their numbers in the annexed entities also increased by 1,957 male and female citizens, bringing their total to 36 thousand and 48 by the end of 2021, and their numbers in the independent authorities increased by 332 males and females, bringing their numbers to 12 thousand and one. Their numbers increased by 1,046 people in state-owned companies, bringing the number of citizens working in them to 20,036. Since September 2017, Kuwait has started the process of nationalizing jobs in implementation of the plan to reduce expatriate workers and replace them with Kuwaiti ones within five years.")
It no longer has a place in Kuwait
The accelerated and “hasty” steps to Kuwaitize jobs and liberal professions revealed major gaps, with Kuwaitis feeling the brunt of the loss of skilled workers. Some voices began criticizing this approach, which they described as improvisational, as it was supposed to empower local workers within a gradual approach that ensures that the Kuwaiti worker and employee acquire the necessary skills.
KUWAIT - Kuwait has accelerated steps to nationalize government and private jobs, and in recent months this path has taken a methodological dimension, amid questions as to whether the matter is limited to an official move to provide jobs for local workers and absorb the numbers of the unemployed, or whether this trend has other backgrounds in relation to a feverish desire to exclude Foreign labor fueled by the obsession of imbalance demographics.
Official announcements continue to replace local workers in many sectors, and local media revealed on Sunday that the Parliamentary Committee of Interior and Defense agreed to set up an implementation mechanism in the Ministries of Interior and Defense, to Kuwaitize administrative and secretarial jobs and office paper work, so that the appointment in them is in a system that gives priority to Kuwaitis, They are followed by those of undetermined nationalities who were born in Kuwait or who carried the census in 1965.
Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Muhammad Al-Faris announced last week that all jobs in the oil sector, including legal affairs jobs, will be Kuwaitiised, in the context of a government project to localize government jobs in eleven job specializations, 100 percent by September 2022.
Observers and civil society activists believe that there are many motives that move the authority to accelerate the pace of the replacement of local workers in Kuwait in this way and how it seems improvised and not based on scientific foundations in relation to the requirements of the labor market.
Observers point out that one of the most prominent motives is the attempt to address the current imbalance in the demographic structure, which for many years has been in favor of expatriates. And the government had previously announced last September the formation of a committee to discuss mechanisms aimed at reaching 70 percent of the population, compared to 30 percent of the expatriates.
Observers say that this marginal shift towards the localization of jobs is not without shortcomings, as the expatriate labor has formed, since the establishment of the state, the cornerstone in building its economic renaissance. For local labor without a real qualification of the latter is something that will certainly have negative repercussions.
Recently, there have been complaints about the severe shortage of skilled labor, as Kuwaitis are finding it difficult today to find a worker to sew the “dishdasha”, which is a traditional dress worn by Kuwaiti men, especially on religious occasions such as Ramadan, and the search for a plumber has become like someone looking for a needle in a haystack.
Observers believe that this recorded shortage is the result of hasty governmental trends regarding the issue of Kuwaitiization of jobs and professions, which in a short period of time transformed Kuwait into an environment inhospitable to expatriates, noting that it was necessary to adopt a gradual policy that would allow Kuwaitis to acquire the necessary expertise and skills.
Kuwaiti official data revealed that 2,631 expatriates left work in the government in its various sectors during 2021, reducing their numbers at the end of last December to 89,073 expatriates, compared to 92,036 expatriates at the end of December 2020.
According to the Kuwaiti newspaper, “Al-Anbaa”, in its issue issued on Sunday, it was clear that the most prominent parties that the arrivals left during the year 2021 are headed by Kuwait Airways, the Ministry of Health, the Kuwait Flour Mills and Bakeries Company, the Public Transport Company and Kuwait University.
Seventeen authorities and institutions and destinations with independent budgets accounted for the largest percentage of expatriates leaving the government sector by about 43 percent, with 1,121 residents, 79 percent of whom left work for Kuwait Airways, with 882 expatriates and expatriates, bringing their number to 4133 compared to 5015 last year.
While the number of expatriates in the Public Corporation for Housing Welfare decreased by 88, from 252 in 2020 to 164 at the end of last year, the number of workers at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research decreased from 702 expatriates to 656 expatriates at the end of 2021.
And 17 ministries accounted for 36% of the expatriates leaving the government sector, with 954 male and female expatriates. in the year 2020.
Kuwaiti officials are satisfied with this rapid pace of replacing expatriate workers with local workers, noting that it is possible to achieve the desired goal of Kuwaitization before the deadlines set in the announced government plans.
2,631 expatriates left work in the government in its various sectors during 2021, reducing their numbers at the end of last December to 89,073 expatriates
According to the Kuwaiti newspaper, the number of citizens working in various government sectors increased during 2021 by 24 thousand and 21 male and female citizens, as their number in the ministries increased by 18 thousand and 56 male and female citizens during the year, bringing their total to 264 thousand and 65 male and female citizens at the end of 2021 compared to 246 thousand in the previous year.
The number of citizens in government departments increased by 2,314, bringing the number at the end of 2021 to 24,3 citizens. Their numbers in the annexed entities also increased by 1,957 male and female citizens, bringing their total to 36 thousand and 48 by the end of 2021, and their numbers in the independent authorities increased by 332 males and females, bringing their numbers to 12 thousand and one. Their numbers increased by 1,046 people in state-owned companies, bringing the number of citizens working in them to 20,036. Since September 2017, Kuwait has started the process of nationalizing jobs in implementation of the plan to reduce expatriate workers and replace them with Kuwaiti ones within five years.
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