The Council of Ministers is working on a government program that shows the benefits of employing national workers within the private sector versus the public sector.
The government program is summarized by motivating employers in the private sector to employ national workers, and encouraging them particularly those who have recently graduated, employees laid-off for some or other reason and other job seekers.
The program aims to ensure the support of private sector employees to motivate Kuwaitis to stay in the private sector and create job opportunities in professions that are being avoided so far, and work to motivate the national workforce.
The number of Kuwaitis working in the private sector is approximately 75,000 male and female citizens, most of whom work in sectors such as banks, finance, investment companies, communications and information technology.
The government plan includes 10 steps that will be gradually implemented in order to achieve the goal that it seeks to implement, which is the employment of 25,000 citizens in the private sector, so that the number of workers reaches 100,000 citizens within 3 to 5 years.
The following are the government steps to be taken to reach the desired goal:
— Conducting a study on the incentive schemes implemented by the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and other leading developed countries, regarding providing incentives to private sector companies to hire nationals.
— Conducting a study to identify high-priority jobs to attract national labor in three stages, with different time periods, so that each stage is studied separately, then its data is analyzed and a remedial study is built on its impact.
— Targeted incentive plans, including eligibility criteria, policies and processes, and aligning them with the efforts of the Public Authority for Manpower at the moment to increase the percentage of national employment in the private sector, in addition to analyzing gaps in supply and demand of labor, and classifying private sector jobs and aligning them with relevant job categories.
— Evaluating the impact of potential incentive plans on the government’s financial resources and budgets in the future (such as cost-benefit analysis).
— Defining and implementing a training program and refining skills to ensure job readiness for citizens looking for work in the private sector, and activating the role of development centers.
– Cooperating with the private sector to define approaches to communication and to socialize new schemes for beneficiaries.
— Obtaining the approvals of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Council of Ministers and ratifying the laws and decisions necessary to implement the incentive plan.
— Starting the implementation of the incentive plan for priority jobs and launching the communication strategy.
— Designing a strategy and policy to close the salary gap between expatriate and national workers.
— Implementation of policies to balance gaps in the salary scale.
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