Thursday, March 15, 2012

Saudi seeks 45k new Ethiopian maids per month

(Mar 15, 2012, Arabian Business)--Saudi Arabia plans to import 45,000 Ethiopian nationals into the kingdom every month in order to meet its requirement for domestic workers.

Maids from the African nation have been in high demand since the Gulf’s most populous nation placed a ban on recruiting workers from the Philippines and Indonesia after those countries imposed stricter employment conditions, the Saudi Gazette reported.

Noor Adeen Masfa, Vice Consul for Economic Affairs in Jeddah, said his department had met with committees from the Ethiopian Ministry of Labour in a bid to facilitate the transfer of Ethiopian workers to the kingdom.

However, the lack of sufficient flights between Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and Saudi hubs has caused delays.
Source: Arabian Business

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