Chairman of the parliamentary manpower committee MP Khalil Al-Saleh spoke about a plan to lay off 25,000 expats and replace them with citizens, local Arabic media reported. However the daily did not give any details.

Daily, quoting him, reported that the parliamentary manpower committee discussed various proposals on employing children of Kuwaiti women in various state bodies.

The total number of citizens registered at the Civil Service Commission (CSC) awaiting employment had dropped to 6,000. The committee had been notified of the availability of 1,500 job vacancies for Kuwaitis in the banking sector.

Lawmakers have been pushing the government in recent years to create more jobs for national manpower in the private sector, which relies heavily on expatriate labor. Expatriate make up more than 90 percent of the private sector’s workforce

Meanwhile, daily also reported that there are no Kuwaiti nurses because Shadadiya university does not have a nursing faculty.