Kuwait’s draft expat quota law will have exemptions – ZAWYA

Kuwait’s draft expat quota law will have exemptions – ZAWYA

kuwait's draft expat quota law will have exemptions the committee said surplus expats will not be asked to leave the country after the law becomes effective    image used for illustrative purpose. laborers wear protective face masks as they wait in line to get temperature checked before entering construction worksite, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (covid-19), in ahmadi, kuwait march 28, 2020. employers that exceed expat recruitment quotas in non-exempt lines of work face a jail term of up to 10 years and a fine of not more than $326,819.the new proposal states that indian nationals must not exceed 15 percent of the population. sri lankans, filipinos and egyptians must not account for more than 10 per cent each, while bangladeshis, pakistanis, nepalis and vietnamese must not cross five percent each, it said. other nationalities cannot exceed three percent each, it added.the draft law has been referred to kuwait's human resources development committee for consideration.the committee said surplus expats will not be asked to leave the country after the law becomes effective. but recruitment from abroad will be stopped until the number of each industry meets the targets, it added.copyright: arab news © 2020 all rights reserved. provided