Five year cap on expats against the interests of employers

Director of Public Authority for Manpower Jamal Al-Dosari confirmed that GCC countries have no intention to reduce the number of expatriate personnel, and the proposal of stipulating the period of stay for expatriates in the country opposes the interests of employers, local daily Arab Times reported. He said this on the sideline of the GCC Undersecretaries of Social Affairs and Labor meeting, however according to Arab Times, the GCC meeting did not shed light on the proposal of specifying the period of stay for expatriates at all.

According to report, Al-Dosari said the authority will be summoned by the committee to discuss the proposal.

Meanwhile, the spokesman of the National Assembly’s legal and legislative committee MP Abdulhameed Dashti explained that the committee’s action of giving approval to five year cap for expats is an approval in principle and the final and ultimate decisions will be taken by the concerned committees.

According to Kuwait Times report, he said that the draft law cleared by the panel on expatriates stipulates that unskilled and semi-skilled expatriate workers can stay in the country for a maximum of 10 years and not five years as mentioned before. The bill also requires that the size of any single foreign community should not exceed 15 percent of Kuwaitis, who currently number 1.25 million. The proposal also proposed an age-limit of 50 years for unskilled and semi-skilled expatriate workers. He also said that the committee passed pro-expatriate proposals which allow expatriates who hold legal residency in Kuwait to stay outside the country for the whole duration of the residency. Under the current law, expatriates can stay outside the country for up to six months and if they fail to return, their residency is cancelled.
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