Ministry of Public Works is planning to replace all its expatriate employees with Kuwaitis within the next five years.

According to a report in Al-Shahed daily, the ministry is keen on benefiting from the experiences of national labour and contributing in providing job opportunities to the youths based on the plan of the Cabinet and in line with the Kuwaitization policy in the public sector.

Earlier Al Rai newspaper reported that Ministry of Electricity and Water is planning to reduce 50% of expatriate workers. According to report, Undersecretary of the Ministry, Eng. Mohammad Bou Shahri has asked the directors of various sectors in the ministry to adopt a comprehensive strategy to stop deploying expatriate workers for operation and maintenance works and train the national workforce to replace them within a time frame. MEW has already started reducing the number of expatriate workers who are working on contract basis by 30% in technical sectors and 50% in administration and finance sector.