Expatriates in public sector to be restricted to medical and educational sector

The Parliamentary Committee on Replacement and Employment will meet soon to put the finishing touches to its report on limiting the rate of expatriates in public sector to 10 percent of the entire workforce before the beginning of the next parliamentary round.

According to report, the expatriates in public sector would be restricted to the medical and educational professions only.

In a related news, parliamentarian Saleh Ashour considered it as unreasonable for the number of expatriates to reach 94,000 in the government departments. He said the government needs only doctors, laboratory technicians and teachers as expatriates and Kuwaitis can comfortably replace 35,000 of the expatriate workforce or at least Kuwaitize half of their
number within two to three years.