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The freedoms of association and collective bargaining in Kuwait are recognized by law; however, they are strictly regulated. For instance, Article 104 of the Labor Act "prohibits unions from interfering in political, religious, and sectarian issues". [5]
In recent decades, Kuwait has enacted certain measures to regulate the issuance of new visas for foreign labor. For instance, workers from Georgia and Morocco are subject to heightened security when applying for entry visas, and an outright ban was imposed on the entry of domestic workers from Guinea-Bissau and Vietnam. [7] Workers from ...
[69] [70] A 2008-human trafficking law was presented by the Bahraini government as covering many common labor law violations, for example the withholding of wages. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] [ 73 ] [ 69 ] [ 74 ] Furthermore, in late 2016 Bahrain was considering to allow the issuance of flexible work permits for undocumented workers, providing them with the ...
2018 was the first year of implementation of the jobs resettlement policy in which more than 3 thousand job contracts of foreigners in government agencies had been cancelled [15] and approximately 13,000 expatriates have been deported from Kuwaiti Interior Ministry with accusations of poor health conditions, labor law violations and criminal ...
On December 14, 1954, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah issued a decision of the Supreme Executive Committee under No. (T. 63/41) to establish the Department of Social Affairs, and on January 17, 1962, in accordance with Amiri Decree No. 2 of 1962, the name of the department was changed to “Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour” until the issuance of Law No. 109 of 2013, which stipulates ...
The new government comes shortly after the emir dissolved parliament indefinitely on Friday, after a prolonged period of bickering between the government and the elected parliament.
The law, passed by Georgia's parliament in June, requires groups that receive funding from abroad to register as foreign agents. It has been criticized by the domestic opposition and the West as a ...
This decision was met with criticism, particularly from Khalaf Al-Enezi, a member of the National Assembly of Kuwait, who rejected the approved increase in minimum wage as it was lower than expected, and urged the government to review its decision. [citation needed] Prior to 2018, the minimum wage in Kuwait was 60 KWD.