Saudi Arabia – The Ministry of Labour and Social Development closed some services of an establishment for delaying salaries of 1,000 workers. The establishment was fined 3 million riyals, the intervention of the ministry came as a follow up on the protection of wages programs on all private sector establishments, and to ensure the timely disbursement of salaries. The official spokesman of the Ministry of Labour and Social Development Khaled Aba al-Khail said that the ministry fined one of the establishment for delaying wages. The ministry affirmed its commitment to protection of wages to all private sector establishments, to ensure the timely disbursement of salaries, to determine wage levels in all professions and to reduce problems between employer and worker. It is applied to all private sector establishments. The ministry explained that based on the list of violations and penalties of the labour system, the establishment is punished when they do not pay wages on due dates specified, a fine up to three thousand riyals, and multiple according to number of workers. All services of the Ministry will also be suspended from establishments that do not comply with the program for two months from the date of mandatory application according to the stages of the program, except for the issuance and renewal of work permits, and will allow their employees to transfer their services to other facilities without the consent of the current employer, even if the work permit has not expired. It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Labour and Social Development began in August the compulsory implementation of the 11th phase of the «Protection of wages» program on enterprises that emplys 79 workers and 60 workers, and the establishments covered at this stage is 7,021 establishments with a number of employment of about 481.097. These developments came as the Saudi Ministry of Labour began taking concrete steps towards the activation of the wage protection program, which was partially been implemented
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