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Kuwait: Manpower program seeks new recruitments in private sector

Wednesday, 09 February 2011 00:22

Kuwait - Secretary General of the Kuwaiti Manpower Restructuring Program Walid Al-Weheib said here Tuesday the program was seeking to recruit 20,000 citizens in the private sector within a couple of years.

Speaking at a news conference at the headquarters of the program to mark the country's national festivals, he stressed the significant role played by the program in the restructuring of manpower in Kuwait as part of the country's development plan.

The current development projects, which couple with the development drive, include national labor training programs, a national labor development center, creating jobs for Kuwaiti women in the private sector and setting up an incubator for small and medium-sized projects, he said.

He listed the program's future blueprints and suggestions as employment centers at trade complexes, Kuwaiti capability and experience centers, functional guidance services and public awareness promotion programs.

The program seeks to alleviate financial burdens on the State budget by spurring Kuwaitis to join the private sector, he said.

Since 2010, the program has been trying to create a quantum shift by means of finding a fresh system based on the provision of technical, material and moral support for citizens wishing to join the private sector, he added.

Using the help of the Ministry of Education and some other state agencies, the program is willing to train and qualify primary and secondary students to working in the private sector, Al-Weheib noted.

However, the program's chief lauded the new labor law as protecting and safeguarding the rights of workers against arbitrary layoff.

The law provides Kuwaiti citizens working in the private sector with adequate safeguards, he said, pointing to coordination between the program and the Public Institution for Social Security in this respect.

The program has contributed to the recruitment of over 70,000 Kuwaiti citizens in non-governmental agencies over the past 10 years, thus cutting joblessness rate to 4.4 percent, Al-Weheib said.

The number of Kuwaiti workers in the private sector rose from 1.3 percent in 2001 to 6.2 percent at present, he pointed out. He finally boasted that his program had played a key role in alleviating the problem of Kuwaiti layoffs from the private sector.
(KUNA)

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