Immigration: Gulf countries decide new regulations to bring foreign workers in

The Minister of Social Affairs and the Kuwaiti Minister of State for Economic Affairs said that the previous meeting of the labor ministers in the Gulf Cooperation countries discussed a mechanism to increase the national labor rates in the private sector, besides considering a new way to bring the emigrating labor so that specific restrictions and axes are defined, including the smart recruitment.

work would focus on the importance of interest in the labor market of the GCC countries and to establish a clear vision of their post-pandemic strategy as a result of the effects on the labor market.

She said that a strategy approved at the previous meeting would be implemented, the most important of which was the establishment of a mechanism for concern with national employment and a mechanism for recruitment from abroad.