The Public Authority for Manpower announced that First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior and Acting Minister of Defense Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled directed the opening of new cooperation frameworks to bring in expatriate workers from new countries, to meet the manpower needs.
The authority indicated that the instructions of the Minister of Interior included coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to sign memorandums of understanding with new labor-exporting countries, reports Al-Qabas daily.
The sources added that the Public Authority for Manpower is implementing Labor Law No. 6 of 2010 regarding work in the private sector and Domestic Labor Law No. 68 of 2015, which provides full protection for workers’ rights.
The sources stressed that these trends are in harmony with the general policy direction towards adjusting the demographics, and ensuring the diversity of sources of expatriate labor in Kuwait to fill the shortage in the labor market.