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Get rid of expats from public sector jobs by 2020: Saudi

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RIYADH — The Ministry of Civil Service has asked all ministries and government departments to get rid of all expatriate workers within three years, according to deputy minister <a class="_magnetEntNameitent_191-1" href="https://www.zawya.com/uae/en/in-the-news/Abdullah%20Al-Melfi/1280373714/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0072a8; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Abdullah Al-Melfi</a>.</div>
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The ministry said that there were 70,000 expats in the public sector at the end of last year.</div>
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The meeting, which focused on the Saudization plan by 2020, was followed by a workshop titled “Job nationalization.”</div>
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A number of senior officials from the ministry and HR experts in a number of ministries, departments and universities participated in the meeting and the workshop.</div>
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The deputy minister said the achievement of NTP and Vision 2030 entails the cooperation of all ministries and government departments.</div>
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The workshop began with a detailed report about the present situation of the Saudization process followed by a presentation on the procedures of job nationalization by 2020.</div>
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The meeting discussed various difficulties in the nationalization of government jobs and listened to the views and the opinions of the representatives of the ministries and departments on this aspect.</div>
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No more mandatory retirement at 60, says solon

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The newly-enacted Anti-Age Discrimination Law or Republic Act 10911 will not only prohibit discriminating employees according to age when hiring or promoting, but will also prohibit them from laying off employees when they reach the retirement age of 60.</div>
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 <span style="line-height: 1.5;">"With this law, you cannot force the employee to retire. They can avail of the retirement if it is voluntary," Representative Emi Calixto-Rubiano, one of the law's authors, said on ANC's Headstart on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5;">Rubiano maintained, the ones retiring must also be qualified to stay on the job because there are exceptions stipulated in the law wherein contractors may refuse employment because of reasonable factors other than age.</span></div>
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She added, through this law, the company and the employer may bargain between them to settle what is the best scenario for both of them.</div>
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According to her, this law will even the playing field for the entire workforce because as long as an employee is qualified, he or she may be hired, disregarding factors like age.</div>
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"I think now, just looking at the classified ads, there are many opportunities for the younger people. This is just to give equal chances and opportunities to all the people," she said.</div>
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Filipina Daesh attacker was ‘promised heaven’

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Manama: The Filipina arrested last week in Kuwait for planning terror attacks had been exhorted by her Somali husband to commit a “successful suicide attack in order to enter Paradise.”</div>
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Justice sources told Kuwaiti daily Al Rai that Livani Azvilo Pescaeda, 32, who had entered Kuwait in June as a domestic helper was communicating with her husband, a member of the Deash terror group in Libya, through a special application and that she was waiting for the necessary explosive equipment to carry out her suicide attack in the northern Arabian Gulf state.</div>
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The source said that Pescaeda worked in Saudi Arabia for two years where she converted from Christianity to Islam upon marrying her Somali husband.</div>
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She subsequently left Saudi Arabia, announced her allegiance to Daesh and attempted to join her husband and the terror group in Libya.</div>
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However, she was unable to reach Libya and Daesh decided to take her to Kuwait where she would carry a suicide attack, Al Rai reported on Sunday.</div>
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The Filipina obtained a visa and entered Kuwait, posing as a domestic helper for a family to avoid raising any suspicions before carrying out her act of terrorism.</div>
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However, the security authorities became aware of her plans by monitoring her electronic communication with the man who recruited her for Daesh and who proved to be her husband based on her confessions, the daily added.</div>
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During her questioning, she admitted that her husband promised her she would go to Heaven if she carried out her suicide attack successfully.</div>
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Daesh in 2015 recruited a Saudi man who flew to Kuwait and committed a suicide attack that killed 27 worshippers and wounded 227 during a group prayer inside Sadiq Mosque.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/kuwait/filipina-daesh-attacker-was-promised-heaven-1.1874894#">source:GulfNews</a></span></div>
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OWWA allocates P500-M for displaced OFWs in Saudi Arabia

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he Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) has allocated half a billion pesos for over 11,000 stranded overseas Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia, the labor chief said on Wednesday.</div>
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"OWWA board appropriated a big amount—big in the sense that it’s half a billion, but small in the sense that only means giving financial assistance to all the affected migrant workers P26,000 each," Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on ANC's Headstart.</div>
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Bello said upon the request of the OFWs, P20,000 of the P26,000 will be retained with the OFW and the P6,000 given to the family in the Philippines.</div>
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Thousands of OFWs remain in Saudi Arabia after being laid off because they have yet to receive their wages from their employers. Most those who have not received their compensation for the previous six to twelve months are skilled construction workers, said Bello.</div>
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Many companies cited falling oil prices as the reason for downsizing, while some also wanted to hire more people who speak their native language. The company involved in the recent collapse at Grand Mosque in Mecca also had to layoff some of its Filipino employees.</div>
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Two Filipino labor attaches in Jeddah have been recalled back to Manila, according to Bello, to explain the problems.</div>
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"Talagang napaka-problematic yung kanila," he added.</div>
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Of the 11,000 workers, however, only 1,000 have expressed intent to go back to the Philippines, said Bello, and authorities are trying to facilitate their return.</div>
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"Most of them insist on staying. I can understand, dahil hinintay nila yung sweldo nila. They cannot come home without money. Wala nang trabaho, wala pang pera—that they cannot accept," he said.</div>
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Some of the roughly 10,000 OFWs are temporarily sheltered in a building rented by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Saudi Arabia, while others are in makeshift tents, said Bello.</div>
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The department, he added, will not force these workers to come home to the Philippines.</div>
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"Why should we force them? It’s their right to collect their wages. Malaking halaga yun," he said.</div>
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Bello also mentioned that it is President Rodrigo Duterte's long-term plan to encourage Filipinos to stay in the Philippines to work.</div>
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"He wants a program that will create jobs for our countrymen so hindi na kailangang pumunta doon," he said, adding that the reality is that there are very limited jobs for all Filipinos in the country.</div>
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But in the meantime, he called for a stricter criteria for recruiting agencies in choosing employers and employees to prevent abusive work relations abroad.</div>
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"We tell them, ‘you choose the employers, kayong mga local agencies.’ I was talking to them, they were all Arabs, ‘you make sure that the employers that you get, they treat their helpers properly'," he said.</div>
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<a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/07/27/16/owwa-allocates-p500-m-for-displaced-ofws-in-saudi-arabia">source: abscbn</a></div>
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