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Gulf Insider
28-05-2025
- Politics
- Gulf Insider
Saudi Arabia: Private Sector Workers To Get 4-Day Eid Al Adha Holiday
Employees of the private and non-profit sectors in Saudi Arabia will get four days as holiday to mark the upcoming Eid Al Adha festival, the kingdom's labour authorities have said. The Saudi Ministry of Human Resources said the holiday for these workers will start on Thursday, June 5, the Arafat Day marking the peak of the annual Hajj pilgrimage on the ninth of the Islamic lunar month of Dhul Hijjah. The ministry stressed the need for employers to take into account the overlapping cases stipulated in the executive regulations of the Saudi labour law to ensure that the holiday is implemented in line with the rules. The Saudi Supreme Court Tuesday evening confirmed the sighting of the moon for the start of Dhul Hijjah, the month during which the Hajj is performed in and around the holy city of Mecca. Accordingly, this year's Eid Al Adha will begin on June 6.
Gulf Insider
22-02-2025
- Business
- Gulf Insider
Saudi Arabia: Businesses Put On Notice Over Saudisation
The Saudi Ministry of Human Resources has asked businesses and establishments to comply with rules employing Saudis and ensure they make up no less than 75% of their overall workforce. The ministry said establishments must attract Saudis, employ them, and provide them with appropriate work opportunities. The ministry has already set up the 'Nitaqat' (Ranges) programme to calculate the job localisation rates and automatically classify establishments. The programme comprises the 'Platinum Range', a category which includes businesses that excel in localisation; and the 'High Green Range' which includes establishments that are average in terms of Saudization rates within the top third. There are, moreover, the 'Yellow Range', a category covering entities that have not achieved the required localisation rates, and the 'Red Range' covering entities with the lowest percentage of localisation. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has launched several initiatives aimed at employing its nationals and replacing foreign workers in various fields such as education, telecommunications, real estate, engineering and healthcare. This labour policy, known as 'Saudisation', incentivises private sector enterprises to create jobs for Saudi citizens. Saudi Arabia is also implementing a regional employment programme for its nationals. The wages of Saudis working in the private sector rose by 45% during 2024, while the private sector employed 50.5% of the overall citizens employed during the same year, the Ministry of Human Resources has recently reported. During the same year, the number of Saudis working in the private sector rose to 2.4 million male and female employees, including 361,000 who entered the labour market for the first time.
Gulf Insider
30-01-2025
- Health
- Gulf Insider
Number Of Citizens In Saudi Dental, Pharmaceutical Professions Rises
String of government initiatives launched to replace foreign workers in several fields The percentage of Saudisation in the dental profession is set to increase to 55%, with a minimum wage of SR9,000. Saudi Arabia has announced raising rates of allocating jobs to Saudi nationals in the dental and pharmaceutical professions as part of expanding citizens' employment in the healthcare sector. In recent years, the kingdom has launched a series of initiatives to employ its nationals and replace foreign workers in several fields as part of a labour policy known as 'Saudisation'. Saudi Minister of Health Fahad Al Jalajel has said the percentage of Saudisation in the dental profession will increase to 55%, with a minimum wage of SR9,000, and in the pharmaceutical profession to 35% in community pharmacies, 65% in hospitals, and 55% in other activities. The official called recent decisions to expand localisation of the Saudi healthcare sector 'pioneering strides'. Last year, a government decision to partially Saudise the dental profession went into effect after a six-month. In September 2023, the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources gave private sector dentistry institutions six months to readjust their status and meet the proscribed rates of initial 35 per cent of their manpower. The decision applies to facilities employing three or more dental professionals. Last November, Saudi Arabia unveiled a new plan to increase the numbers of Saudis working in four health professions in the private sector as part of government efforts to provide jobs for citizens. The Ministry of Human Resources said that in partnership with the Ministry of Health, decisions have been taken to raise the rates of professional localisation in radiology to reach 64% of the overall workforce at the private sector institutions; to 70% in the medical lab field; 80% in therapeutic nutrition; and 80% in physiotherapy. The decisions will be implemented in two phases this year. The first is due to begin on April 17 covering all medical institutions in the main Saudi cities, namely Riyadh, Mecca, Medina, Jeddah, Dammam and Khubar and major institutions in other regions of the kingdom. The second phase will start on October 17, applying to all institutions across the kingdom.
