A number of cleaning workers protested outside the Education Ministry building over not receiving their salaries since July.

The ministry’s services manager Fahd Al-Hayyab summoned the contracting company’s representative and warn him to resolve the problem.

The ministry’s assistant undersecretary and official spokesperson Faisal Maqseed stressed that cleaners’ salaries are the responsibility of the company hiring them and that the ministry will take legal action against the company.

According to local media report, the ministry had already paid all its financial commitments to the company providing the cleaners and that the company had been already contacted and urged to resolve the problem of cleaners’ overdue salaries. Report also added that the manpower authority has also been contacted to take legal action against the company.