The Council of Ministers is preparing to take measures that will pave the way for the issuance of the decisions required to implement the provisions of Law No. 74 of 2020 regarding organizing and restoring balance to the demographics, after completing the draft decree of the executive regulations of the law, which will be presented to the Council to take the necessary measures towards setting a higher ceiling for expatriate workers in light of a more comprehensive view of the needs of the development plan supported by the assessment of the need.
The Council of Ministers is expected to issue the mechanisms, tools and controls required to address the imbalances. The Council also will issue annual executive decisions whenever necessary to put the regulations into effect, reports Al-Anba daily.
The daily also learned that the executive regulations include many controls, as they take into account the numbers of expatriate workers in view of the requirements of the national time plan for comprehensive development and their needs for these numbers, and identify the excluded groups in light of these needs, and the policies prohibiting the transfer of expatriate workers between different sectors, provided that this will be followed by defining the educational outputs of higher education institutions and missions, and completing the plan to replace the expatriate national workforce, for which a higher ceiling has been set.
According to private sources, linking a higher ceiling for expatriate workers based on a broad, more comprehensive and advanced view of the needs of the development plan for expatriate workers will be an advanced step supported by an assessment of needs in the private sector.
Other sources pointed out the need to take into account technical labor such as tailors, fishermen and contracting workers after registering the high cost of this labor after the decision not to renew the residence of those who have reached 60 years of age and don’t hold university degree, and many were forced to leave, and this matter was rectified after directing the Council of Ministers and finding a solution that included imposing fees for renewal and private health insurance.