(June 18, 2011, Islamabad)- Saudi Arabia plans to employ 30,000 labourers from Ethiopia and Kenya including housemaids, drivers and technical staff, reported Arabic daily Okaz of Saudi Arabia.
The recruitment from these two countries constitutes over 80 percent of house workers, creating a whole new market. Ethiopians and Kenyans have become the most sought after source of labour due to the speed and ease with which recruitment are conducted coupled with the ongoing stalemate over new contract conditions for workers from Indonesia and the Philippines.
The maximum time it takes to recruit someone from Ethiopia and Kenya is 45 days. The increase in demand for workers from those two countries has led to the creation of a whole new market. The number of contracting offices in those countries has shot up in recent times.
Ethiopia and Kenya have now 170 and 150 licensed contracting offices in operation respectively. The offices would increase further as demands rises. Saudi Arabia is planning to set up training institutes through joint investment to provide the workers with skills they need before they depart to Saudi Arabia, following the model of Indonesia and Philippines .
Salaries earned by Ethiopian and Kenyans workers are SR 8000 and SR 9000 respectively. Saudi Arabia is the top investor in Ethiopia. The Saudi businessmen invested SR 2 billion in agriculture.
Source: Pakistan Observer
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