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Gulf nations move to limit workers' stay

Propose not to allow stay over 5yrs

Staff Correspondent
The labour ministers of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have made a proposal for not allowing expatriate workers to stay in the GCC countries for over five years, said Kuwaiti Labour Minister Bader Al-Duwailah.
Quoting sources, Kuwaiti newspaper Arab Times, however, said doctors, lawyers and consultants might not come under the proposed rule.
The GCC labour ministers think that the increase in number of expatriate workers has led to an imbalance in population of the
region. Besides, the foreign workers press for ensuring their social, political and civil rights after spending a long time in the GCC countries.
About 40 lakh Bangladeshi workers, mostly low-skilled, currently live in the GCC countries. They contribute significantly to the country's yearly remittance of around US$8 billion.
International organisations, supporting the rights of migrants and foreign workers, are closely monitoring the region since reports on the alleged abuse of expatriate workers have tainted the image of GCC nations in the international community', Arab Times said.
Kuwait Times, meanwhile, reported that Kuwait's parliamentary committee on human rights plans to impose strict penalties against companies, which have abused their foreign employees. Besides, it also plans to ban these companies from hiring more foreign labourers in Kuwait. The committee is scheduled to hand over the report to the National Assembly at its next parliamentary meeting.
The committee will also mention the names of the companies in a supplementary report.
Members of the human rights committee said they had visited the companies several times and gathered proof of how these companies had mistreated their employees.
The committee members also discovered that some officials ind employees from various ministries assisted these companies to commit legal violations igainst expatriate employees.
The committee members also revealed that some companies, which were found abusing their employees, had already been dosed by some former ministers.
But some high-ups of the ministry allowed these companies to bring in more workers, hey said, adding that actions ■hould be taken against the cor-upt ministry officials and imployees.
They said the report will be liscussed secretly and if proven 'uilty, all people involved in ibusing expatriate workers will >e referred to the public prosecu-ion.