Last Week, the National Assembly Association organized a seminar about entitled jobs, Bahrainization, and the labour market.
The Secretary-General of the General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions, Hassan Al-Halwaji, proposed the establishment of a higher wage council that would set the minimum wage according to the fiscal policy of the state and the establishment of a socio-economic council composed of the three production parties, denying any contradiction between the " Bahrainization" of jobs and economic openness. In fact, it aims at finding projects that would provide good work opportunities with an added value, that would contribute to the elimination of unemployment and that would raise the purchasing power and in which the Bahreini citizen will be prioritized.
Al-Halwaji called on the government to review the flexible work system and the parallel system of Bahrainization, and to develop the education process so that it meets the requirements of the labour market and create opportunities for the Bahraini workers.
He stated that in the second quarter of 2018, the number of the workforce was 159 thousand Bahraini workers and 601 thousand non-Bahraini and stated that it is not acceptable that the number of the Bahraini new entrants to the labour market is only 1363, while the non-Bahrainis are 39566 workers, an increase of 96.5%, i.e. 20% of foreign workers in the government sector.
Al-Halwaji stated that the percentage of Bahrainis in 2007 was 26% and 21% last year, due to the absence of a minimum wage, the inadequacy of the education outputs with the labour market requirements, the lack of commitment and the non-development of the Bahraini labour law, in addition to the introduction of regulations that allow the non-Bahraini workers to increase at the expense of national workers in exchange for an increase in fees (the parallel Bahrainization system, the flexible labour contract), strongly criticizing the flexible labour contract.
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