Were they over staffed? In which case they were made redundant - did the older Qataris keep their jobs ie last in, first out.
or
if they were cost cutting, did they make the less competent 'redundant' first.
'laid-off', 'retired' or 'redundant' youngsters, whilst expats are retained, are the euphemisms employed to disguise the fact that they were fired for not being up to the job - how else do you explain it?
These young people were not 'retired' as disguised unemployment unless the Ministry was short of money and needed to cost cut(you retire older staff and make the young redundant).....they were fired, as shown by the fact that they concentrated on the young and the Ministry is not short of a Riyal or two.
1 in 40 not up to the job seems really generous in the real world of employment; in other competitive countries the ratio would be much higher, more like 1 in 20.
I don't know if training was offered, but one has to turn up for training or actually want it for it to have any benefit.
Qataris should have first preference for jobs, but no one is entitled to a job they neither cannot do, or can't be bothered to do.
From reading around this subject for the last few years, and being logical, these are only my speculations on the matter as I am, obviously, not party to the in's and ouy's of local politics, government ministries and employment practices therein.
The crucial point is why they were 'laid-off'?
Were they over staffed? In which case they were made redundant - did the older Qataris keep their jobs ie last in, first out.
or
if they were cost cutting, did they make the less competent 'redundant' first.
'laid-off', 'retired' or 'redundant' youngsters, whilst expats are retained, are the euphemisms employed to disguise the fact that they were fired for not being up to the job - how else do you explain it?
These young people were not 'retired' as disguised unemployment unless the Ministry was short of money and needed to cost cut(you retire older staff and make the young redundant).....they were fired, as shown by the fact that they concentrated on the young and the Ministry is not short of a Riyal or two.
1 in 40 not up to the job seems really generous in the real world of employment; in other competitive countries the ratio would be much higher, more like 1 in 20.
I don't know if training was offered, but one has to turn up for training or actually want it for it to have any benefit.
Qataris should have first preference for jobs, but no one is entitled to a job they neither cannot do, or can't be bothered to do.
From reading around this subject for the last few years, and being logical, these are only my speculations on the matter as I am, obviously, not party to the in's and ouy's of local politics, government ministries and employment practices therein.