RIYADH: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Labour and Manpower Ministry has started considering to lower stay period of foreign workers in country from 4 to 2 years.
The Saudi Ministry is considering to change formulated rating procedure for foreigners after that any foreign worker can change his employer and job without consent of his guarantor, Al-Arabia reported.
Foreign worker would be able to change his “Yellow scale” to “Green scale” or “Platinum scale” after approval of the new law.
The law will authorise a foreign worker to change his nature of job and employer without facing any conditions.
However, the stay period of foreign employees will be deducted up to two year which would be the half of previously allowed contractual period of 4 years.
It should be noted that the stay period of foreign workers will be counted from the issuance date issuance of job license while ‘Green’ and ‘Platinum’ scale holders could renew their licenses maximum up to only 6 years, afterward, the stay period in the country will not be allowed.
Yellow scale holder allowed in country for two years only.
Every employee, after issuance of work license, will have to endorse it to the concerned departments in each 6 months.
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