The Director of the Public Authority for Manpower, Dr. Mubarak Al-Azmi, received in his office the ambassadors of the republics of Nepal, Durga Bhandari, and Tanzania, Saeed Musa, to discuss the mechanisms for enhancing cooperation in the field of recruitment and employment, especially domestic workers, especially in light of the fact that the authority has not taken any positive step beyond the stage of meetings to signing memoranda of understanding with these countries regarding this issue, to fill the severe deficit that the market has been suffering from for more than 3 years.
Al-Shammari told a local Arabic daily that “Kuwait has relied for years on a few countries for domestic workers, and one of these countries provides us with about 60 percent of the labor market’s needs, which raises the alarm bell in the event of any problems with this country, as happened during the past years,” noting that regarding the memorandum of understanding that PAM announced signing with Ethiopia to bring in domestic workers, remains suspended so far, despite being in the final stages, and there is a real desire from Addis Ababa to complete it and start the process of recruitment and use.
Al-Shammari expected a strong resurgence of the domestic labor shortage crisis in the coming months, due to the many current problems, which lead to the reluctance of workers to come to Kuwait, as well as the imminent announcement of a neighboring country to lift the ban on recruitment from the Philippines, which is the “backbone” to provide us with new employment and called on PAM to solve the problem quickly and expedite the process of signing memoranda of understanding with the domestic workers exporting countries and not be satisfied with one or two countries.
