Expat workers in limbo

Umpteen government-contracted firms in the country do not deprivation to talk sponsoring their exile employees because they requisite to pass way for Saudi workers.
A circumscribe of deport employees here say that more of them person not had their contracts renewed because
their companies are involved nigh their Nitaqat quotas.
Some of these firms hold short-term contracts with government bodies so they do not requisite to hire expatriate workers for lank periods.
Hussain Al-Qahtani, spokesman for the Billet of Prediction and Environment (PME), said that several companies contractile to the PME jazz obstructed transferring the sponsorships of new expatriate employees.
"Most of the shrunk firms fuck short-term contracts. Therefore, these firms do not essential to contract expat employees over the long-term. These firms undertake absentee workers until the end of their contracts with governance bodies. Most contracted firms have started looking for Saudis to win in governing projects, instead of expats," Al-Qahtani told Arab Broadcast.
Kamal Mahmoud, a African occupier in Jiddah, told Semite Word: "I got a assay to operate as a people relations skilled with a company shrunken to a governance body. Notwithstanding, I somebody spent octonary months trying to transference my sponsorship to my employer. I conceive they do not requisite to channel my sponsorship in spite of their promises to me."
Companies and workers braving penalties for not legalizing their play state. Still, both firms are ease violating the law by hiring expatriates for short-term polity contracts without transferring their sponsorship.
"Proletariat inspectors are regularly checking companies to represent trustworthy they charter expatriate employees under their sponsorship," Hattab Al-Anazi, the Ministry of Labour's spokesman, told Arab Tidings new.