Kuwait: Sponsorship System changed!

The decision will undoubtedly help remove the misery of the expatriate community...

New employees should sign a contract for minimum 2 years of service. In between they want to leave the company, they should pay the employeer a fixed amount decided in the contract. (Recruitment, ticket, immigration etc. expenses). The amount payable should be mentioned in the contract.

After 3 years the emplyoee can join any other company if he wants and the same procedure will apply in the other company. Minimum 2 years of service.

There is no need for a release letter after 2 years.

What's the point, genesis? If I have an income of QR 500.000 and I want to buy a car worth 150.000, every bank in the world will agree on a car loan. I am not talking about 1 million unskilled and underpaid workers. They need the "protection" of the sponsors against the sponsors. But they should release the sponsorship based on annual income. And expats leaving the country without paying back loans is a flaw in the banking system and not solved through the sponsorship system.

The problem is that there have been many cases where Expats have got loans and disappeared the next day..:O)

If the sponsorship law is abolished, do you think it will be easy for expatriates to buy a car ,get a loan or even open a bank account? Just wait and see.

Not to mention many other restrictions & fees to be enforced.

Well it started with Bahrain, and now Kuwait.. hopefully it will continue spreading

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in Kuwaitis sponsorship system. Noticeably, their economy have been sluggish these past few months, not to mention the squabbling in their cabinet.

It is humilating. Imagine, a professor who has a decent education (more or less) needs to ask his sponsor to buy a car, open a bank account, go on holiday....

yeah, I hope it will be implemented soon too so I could get the pak out of this bulltsit company

I have mixed feelings about the sponsorship law. Eventfully, it will be abolished I guess. I hope in the first stage they apply it for the private sector ONLY, in addition to regulations on domestic workers.

Anyway, I hope it will not be implemented anytime soon...

qatar will not follow kuwait, they like following Saudi, like the one they did about gadget checking at the airport, for family only bullshit and more

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a period of time or repay the expenses for bringing you here. Breech of contract is a separate issue.

I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM

"According to the decision, an expatriate who has spent three years with a sponsor now has the right to move to another job without his approval. An employee can also switch to another job after one year if his employer does not oppose the move."

I have no problem with that. What I DO object to (as an employer) is people who come over at the Employers expense, then try to change jobs after six months and bithc and moan when they are asked to foot the bill for the recruiting process.

Nice...hope i get release from my modern day slavery job.

Aana free, jaana free,

Pakde gaye tho khana free.

and the possibility of Qatar doing the same thing.

I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM

hope qatar will soon to realize that too,,I've been suffering for 3 years and i know i give my all effort to be appreciate by my company but nothing happens, the bad thing they dont want me to give release even though the other company offering me 3 times of the salary they given to me,,but what can i do, i need to work the ending is to stay and try to save for the next move,,,

Nice going Kuwait, Hopefully Other GCC will follow. It is just a matter of time.

this is a great move by these GCC Countries. Hope Qatar follows the same too.

Should be done to save the poor people especially laborers. I was so shocked today while returning from Dukhan, happened to see some very tired and exhausted workers waiting in the sweltering heat at 11:45am for someone to drop them off at the Shahaniya overpass. This was so pathetic of the Companies involved. They were complaining that they were dropped off at the work site at 6:30am and their work got over at 11:30am . Since there was no transport back to the camp, they had no other option but to wait for a bus or get picked up by generous people like myself. What a shame for these Companies, hope the human rights authorities are not sleeping here! One of them also told me that they hadn't paid him for 4 months and he was very thankful for me helping him to reach the bridge from where he would have to wait for another ride. What a pity.

i wish.. and i wish.. that the qatari government would follow very very soon...

I always dreamt that any expatriate born and working in any GCC country must be allowed to change his job after 3 years while those expatriates hired from non GCC countries must be allowed to change after 5 yrs of service in the same country

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In this way both EMPLOYEE & EMPLOYER will be save

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I'm very grateful to the govt of KUWAIT & BAHRAIN who have taken such a bold step towards decades old problem

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I hope with others ofcourse that Qatari govt will also announce such decision very soon

i wish Qatar will follow suit. I believe that this would help make the country more progressive and will give those who are "locked up" on the wrong jobs a chance to really exemplify their capabilities and be more productive.

Two thumbs up for Kuwait. :)

Agree with MD's comment, quite surprising, as they "acceptance always comes after denial."

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awesome...Qatar shud implement this as soon as possible...

Yeah, tess, because that means that all the time they knew it and they didn't do anything about it. If you don't know, you're excused, but if you know, you must stand in for it.

"The move is a first step towards the total abolition of the sponsorship system and aims to put an end to modern-day slavery," Mohammad Al Afassi, the Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, said hours after he issued the decree.

I am shocked that the Minister of Social Affairs and Labour calls it what it is!

Congrats Kuwait. This system should be implemented in Qatar. So that all the poor workers who got trapped by the bad & unscrupulous recruitment agencies. Let the Qatar government learn from Kuwait Government. Hail Kuwait Government.

Hope Qatar will follow soon. I don't think rest of GCC can fall back on this. International pressure is alos mounting, with ILO and various human rights organisations talking about it every now and then.

Good for all parties involved

hope qatar will also start.. as i heard few mnths back

There must be contract to save both rights of the sponser and the worker.

Otherwise it will be chaos.

Wish all the GCC did that..People trapped in wrong jobs can get such a relief..