MHRSD: 1 million workers benefit from initiative to improve contractual relationship

MHRSD: 1 million workers benefit from initiative to improve contractual relationship

Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development revealed that as many as one million workers have benefited from the initiative to improve the contractual relationship between employers and employees. The salient features of the initiative include freedom of job mobility, freedom of exit and reentry, and freedom of final exit. The ministry announced that the rate of labor disputes had decreased by 50 percent after launching of the initiative, Okaz/Saudi Gazette has learned.The initiative is part of the National Transformation Program 2020 that emanated from the Kingdom’s Vision 2030. The initiative enabled making amendments in the Labor Law rules and regulations aimed at improving the contractual relationship between employers and workers. The initiative allows job mobility for expatriates, as well as improving the mechanisms of exit and reentry and final exit, which contributed to raising the attractiveness of the labor market, raising its competitiveness, and enhancing its attractiveness to highly skilled expatriate workers.It is noteworthy that the special rules for the expatriate worker to benefit from the initiative to improve the contractual relationship are applicable to professional workers subject to the Labor Law, and that the worker must have completed 12 months with the current