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New Saudi policy ‘to tighten rules on foreign workers’

Riyadh - Arab Today

Saudi Arabia plans to tighten restrictions on foreign workers from September 3 to pressure companies into hiring more Saudi citizens, according to government sources on Monday. The new policy could help the kingdom achieve one of its economic reform goals launched last year to ease unemployment among Saudis from the current 12.1 per cent to 9 per cent by 2020.Read more

Labour minister meets BWU chairperson

Manama - Arab Today

Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel bin Mohammed Ali Humaidan received Bahrain Women Union (BWU) Chairperson Fatima Abu Idris, who outlined the role of the association in promoting women’s empowerment, building their competences and strengthening cooperation with official institutions. Humaidan hailed the BWU-led efforts, reiterating the ministry’s support to achieve its goals and serve Bahraini women. The BWU Chairperson presentedRead more

Iceland booming but no crash in sight, central banker says

Reykjavik - AFP

Iceland's economy is booming and may overheat but there will be no repeat of the crash that plunged the country into a major financial crisis in 2008, central bank governor Mar Gudmundsson told AFP in an interview. The North Atlantic island posted spectacular growth of 7.2 percent in 2016, one of the strongest rates in the world, on the backRead more

Bahrain warns against unlicensed fundraising

Manama- Arab Today

Bahrain has warned mosque imams or preachers against fundraising or allowing fundraising for conflict-torn countries. It also warned against beggars claiming to be from war-torn countries. “There is a mechanism to raise funds in mosques or to place donation boxes in shops or in malls that includes coordination with the Ministry of Labour and Social Development, and any civil societyRead more

Dialogue among production parties stressed

Manama - BNA

Labour and Social Development Minister, Jameel bin Mohammed Ali Humaidan, met here today the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the workers' trade union of the Bahrain Flour Mills Company BSC ("Al-Matahin), Ghassan Khalil Al-Al-Aryash, and Deputy Chairman Ahmed Yahya Al-Gharbi. Al-Aryash expressed, on behalf of the members and affiliates of the Matahin workers' trade union, sincere thanks andRead more

Labour Minister meets Deputy Speaker

Manama - Arab Today

Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel bin Mohammed Ali Humaidan received Council of Representatives First Deputy Speaker Ali Al Aradi and discussed cooperation. The minister commended the dedicated efforts of MP Al Aradi to upgrade parliamentary work and issue legislations that promote development, through the fruitful coordination between the legislative and executive branches of government. The Deputy Speaker also laudedRead more

Dubai’s Taqdeer assessment starts, but major contractors miss out on labour welfare initiative

Dubai - Arab Today

Assessments have started for the Dubai Government’s first ever Taqdeer Awards, but the initiative has yet to entice some of the major names from Dubai’s contracting community. Taqdeer was launched in October last year by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai and chairman of the Dubai Executive Council. It seeks to encourage best practice among employers by scoringRead more

Brexit has changed Britain’s political landscape

Halifax, England - Arab today

On Saturday morning, two days after its disastrous by-election loss to the Tories more than 150 kilometres away in Copeland, Cumbria — an area that had been Labour since 1935 — there was little enthusiasm for the party or its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, in the west Yorkshire town — and, equally strikingly, a waning antipathy to Theresa May’s Conservatives. BryanRead more

Brexit bill reopens old wounds for UK Labour

London - Arab Today

The passage of a Brexit bill in parliament is reopening deep divisions among lawmakers in Britain’s opposition Labour party, as they struggle to reconcile their pro-European views with voter concerns over immigration. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn ordered his members of parliament to support the first stage of a bill on Wednesday empowering the government to begin EU negotiations, but 47Read more

British MPs reluctantly line up behind Brexit bill

London - Arab Today

Voicing anguish over a painful choice, many of the British MPs voting Wednesday to start the Brexit process said they were bowing to popular will, but feared history would judge them harshly. More than two-thirds of the members of the House of Commons opposed Brexit, and in the weeks after June’s shock referendum vote, many people outside parliament hoped thatRead more