Kuwait finalizing deal to drastically cut expats

Kuwait finalizing deal to drastically cut expats

KUWAIT CITY — The government and the National Assembly are close to approving short-term and long-term measures to cut the country's number of expatriates by as many at 360,000 workers.The government's plan reportedly calls for deporting 120,000 illegal workers and 150,000 expatriates aged over 60 which include employees, dependents or those suffering from chronic disease,Kuwait Times reported on Monday. It quoted a member of the assembly's manpower resources development committee Osama Al-Shaheen as saying. The plan also includes deporting 90,000 marginal and poorly educated laborers.Minister of Social Affairs Mariam Al-Aqeel was asked to submit