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According to official figures in 2012, foreign workers filled 66 per cent of jobs in Saudi Arabia, despite an official unemployment rate of 12 per cent amongst Saudis, and expatriates sent, on average, US$18 billion each year, in remittances to their home countries. [8]
The application provides around 280 services for residents of Saudi Arabia [3] including but not limited to making appointments, renewing passports, residents' cards, IDs, driver's licenses and others, [4] and, controversially, enables Saudi men to track the whereabouts of women they control as part of the country's male guardianship system.
Saudization (Arabic: السعودة), [1] officially the Saudi nationalization scheme and also known as Nitaqat (Arabic: النطاقات), is a policy that is implemented in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, which requires companies and enterprises to fill their workforce with Saudi nationals up to certain levels.
To the east of Saudi Arabia along the Persian Gulf, are the country's abundant oil fields, that since the 1960s, have made Saudi Arabia synonymous with petroleum wealth.. It is among this region that Australians have settled their expat communities, harnessing the need for individuals in the economic, technology and export sector and growing the population of Australians living in Saudi Arab
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte speaking to a group of repatriated overseas Filipino workers from Saudi Arabia in 2016. Every year, an unknown number of Filipinos in Saudi Arabia are "victims of sexual abuses, maltreatment, unpaid salaries, and other labor malpractices," according to John Leonard Monterona, the Middle East coordinator of Migrante, a Manila-based OFW organization. [14]
On 15 June 2011, women drivers in the United States organised a protest in solidarity with Saudi women, planning to encircle the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C. [68] In mid-June, three women from Minnesota, supported by an advocacy group, announced a gender discrimination complaint against Saudi Arabia's livery services in Rochester ...
There's still more than a month until Inauguration Day, but President-elect Donald Trump's administration is already off to a rocky start. During his first four years, Trump had more failed ...
Reema Juffali, also spelt either as Reema Al Juffali or Reema Al-Juffali [1] [2] (Arabic: ريما الجفالي; born 18 January 1992), is a Saudi Arabian professional race car driver who competes in the International GT Open with her own team, Theeba Motorsport. [3]