I have huge respect for you but I just cant square some of your stances here with your passioante and rational insights into how Qatari society, education and work ethic should be transformed.
The quote that set the alarm bells ringing in the extract that you cited, was this:
"The reason for this enforced retirement is based on the service reports submitted by their superiors indicating their poor performance in the duties assigned to them"
In reality they were fired for not wanting or not being able to do their jobs - the status of'retirement' was just to sweeten the pill.
To sack Qataris at a government ministry says to me that these 20 are the type that rarely turn up for work and do very little when they do (just my guess as I don't know the case). As Qataris, I would suspect that these people would have been given every help and support to rise to the compantency levels required - if they just could not be bothered to take advantage of this, or were so unsuitable for the work, no matter what the support provided, what would you have the ministry do? Pay them as charity cases, Ministry pets?
The health ministry has work to accomplish and, again I speculate, it wasn't being done by these 20 individuals - and the ministry was paying for their inaction as well!
Whether they were replaced by competent local or ex-pats, who could actually do the job, I don't know - or it may be the case they just got rid of dead wood and kept actual workers, Qataris or not, doing the tasks that actually HAVE to be performed.
This is the real world, and Qataris will not solve their expat 'problem' until they solve their own and join the real world of work.
I have huge respect for you but I just cant square some of your stances here with your passioante and rational insights into how Qatari society, education and work ethic should be transformed.
The quote that set the alarm bells ringing in the extract that you cited, was this:
"The reason for this enforced retirement is based on the service reports submitted by their superiors indicating their poor performance in the duties assigned to them"
In reality they were fired for not wanting or not being able to do their jobs - the status of'retirement' was just to sweeten the pill.
To sack Qataris at a government ministry says to me that these 20 are the type that rarely turn up for work and do very little when they do (just my guess as I don't know the case). As Qataris, I would suspect that these people would have been given every help and support to rise to the compantency levels required - if they just could not be bothered to take advantage of this, or were so unsuitable for the work, no matter what the support provided, what would you have the ministry do? Pay them as charity cases, Ministry pets?
The health ministry has work to accomplish and, again I speculate, it wasn't being done by these 20 individuals - and the ministry was paying for their inaction as well!
Whether they were replaced by competent local or ex-pats, who could actually do the job, I don't know - or it may be the case they just got rid of dead wood and kept actual workers, Qataris or not, doing the tasks that actually HAVE to be performed.
This is the real world, and Qataris will not solve their expat 'problem' until they solve their own and join the real world of work.