Public Authority for Manpower launches (Together 4) project to protect works rights

The Public Authority for Manpower launched on Monday the national project (Together 4) to protect the rights of expatriate workers in Kuwait, in partnership with the Kuwaiti Society for Human Rights.

In a press conference, Acting Deputy Director General of the Labor Protection Sector at the Authority, Dr. Fahad Al-Murad affirmed that the Authority seeks to review all procedures to guarantee the rights of all expatriate workers in Kuwait.

The Authority is also working to evaluate all aspects of the employment measures, starting from the recruitment stage and then employment to the return of workers to their countries, he added.

He also noted that the (Together 4) project comes within the framework of the Authority’s efforts aimed at strengthening cooperation with civil society institutions and public benefit associations and institutionalizing cooperation between them by developing a special mechanism through the establishment of the permanent committee to work on linking and coordinating between them.

For his part, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kuwait Society for Human Rights, Khaled Al-Humaidi, said that (Together 4) consists of several activities, including social, psychological and legal support and providing consultations via the hotline in six different languages. (KUNA)