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The General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) is a Saudi Arabian government agency concerned with social insurance in the country. GOSI is supervised by a board of eleven directors from government departments, employers and insured persons.
Saudization (Arabic: السعودة), [1] officially the Saudi nationalization scheme and also known as Nitaqat (Arabic: النطاقات), is a policy that is implemented in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, which requires companies and enterprises to fill their workforce with Saudi nationals up to certain levels.
The kafala system in Saudi Arabia previously tied workers to their employers, or sponsors, who are responsible for the employees’ visa and legal status. The new law limited the relationship between employers and expatriate workers under the system, who primarily work in construction and domestic work.
Although she believes that the guardianship system needs to be reconsidered, she thinks that Absher is an important step towards facilitating women-guardians related issues in Saudi Arabia. [21] Absher manager Atiyah Al-Anazy announced in 2019 that two million women were using the application in Saudi Arabia to facilitate their transactions. [22]
Saudi Arabia has one of the fastest growing populations in the world. [29] The majority of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia come from South Asia. [29] Although migrants constitute 33% of the total population, they represent 56.5% of the total number of employees and 89% of the employees active in the private sector. [29]
The Ministry of Civil Service was a governmental body in Saudi Arabia that is responsible for arranging the affairs of public employees. [1] It was founded by a royal decree in 1999 to replace the General Bureau of Civil Service [2] and Dr Muhammad bin Ali Al-Fayez served as its first minister. [3]
In 2015, Saudi Arabia introduced reforms in an attempt to fix its laws and protect foreign workers. [47] Saudi Arabia was exposed by The Sunday Telegraph for detaining African migrants in a drive to control COVID-19. The newspaper received graphic mobile phone images, showing the miserable condition of the detained migrants.
An estimated 7.5 (2013) million foreigners work legally in Saudi Arabia [22] and play a crucial role in developing the Saudi economy, for example in the oil and service sectors. The government has been encouraging the growth of the private sector for many years to decrease the kingdom's dependence on oil and to increase employment opportunities ...