more anti-unemployment propogands

Gosaibi Announces Plan to Spur Job Growth for Saudis
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News
JEDDAH,

22 November 2006 — Labor Minister Ghazi Al-Gosaibi yesterday announced a 25-year strategy to fight unemployment among Saudis, which according to latest official estimates, is 9.1 percent among men and 26.3 percent among women.
Ohh come on, first you put the men statstics into the women court. Then you reverse the women employment percent and stick it on to men as the unemployment percent. I did better than that in my stats class. Mr. Gosaibi your yearly plans are known to fail in days of going effect so make sure you aim right with 25 years. It looks a lot delusional to me!!

“We will implement 26 policies through 108 mechanisms in order to reduce unemployment in the short- and long-terms,” he said.
And where exactly are those 108 mechanism??? I mean i haven't seen more than Jawazat and Labour Ministry when it comes to mechanisms of labours

The minister called for stringent measures to cut the unemployment rate and for reducing the country’s addiction to foreign labor.
Ok, and those measures are???

“The unemployment problem is a major challenge,” the Saudi Press Agency quoted Gosaibi as saying. “It cannot be dealt with while the country’s doors are open to hundreds of thousands of expatriate workers every year.” Gosaibi attributed the employment problem to the low qualifications of job seekers, incompatibility of their educational qualifications with job-market requirements, lack of readiness on the part of some private companies to apply Saudization policies, and low salaries offered by private firms.
Well expatriate labours exisits to full fill your needs. Business hire expartiate labours for three reasons
1. Qualifications
2. Cheap rate
3. Exploitability & Control with your slave like iqama rules
If you close the doors of forigen labour, the businessmen gonna sack their money and move. And this is what pretty much happening. Not a good move when Saudi's are begging for some forigen investment. Regarding the qualifications of Saudi work force, yeah right Quran graduates aren't good for anything execpt moral police and terrorists.

“Fighting unemployment will remain the ministry’s priority,” Gosaibi said. “Ending unemployment is essential in the light of the new statistics.” The minister was referring to a study conducted by the General Statistics Department on work force in the Kingdom.
He spoke about the ministry’s nationwide campaign to provide employment for nationals. “Among some 155,000 Saudi job seekers registered with us during the campaign we have found employment for about 133,000 people by August of this year,” he pointed out.
What an accomplishment that you found out jobs for them. 90% of them were absorbed brute forced by the private sector to fill in their saudization quotas. The remaining 10% got placements as guards and moaqqibs. Misson accomplished, though these kind of employments dont really fullfill any demands of labour market.

Referring to the ministry’s efforts to cut foreign recruitment, Gosaibi said the number of recruitment visas issued annually declined from 597,000 visas in 2002 to 353,000 last year. He said the unemployment rate did not reflect the Kingdom’s current robust economic growth.
The Kingdom plans to build massive economic cities across the country as part of its efforts to achieve regional development and create more jobs for its citizens. The four economic cities already launched in Rabigh, Hail, Madinah and Jizan aim at attracting SR300 billion ($80 billion) in investment and generating at least one million new jobs.
You need forigen engineers to design, plan and execute those cities. Then cheap labour from Indian Subcontient for constructing it. Ohh and no to mention, the company constructing and investing in them is forigen too.. Emaar Properties of UAE.??

In a recent statement, Crown Prince Sultan emphasized the government’s resolve to fight unemployment. “The new educational and infrastructure projects ordered by the king reflect his desire to achieve balanced growth in all parts of the country,” he said. “The new projects will also create job opportunities for thousands of young Saudis. As a result, there will not be any unemployed among Saudi youth as all of them will be provided jobs within the next five years.” The Human Resource Development Fund has played a significant role in providing employment for Saudis in cooperation with the private sector. “The fund has so far trained and employed 144,450 Saudis during the past years,” Gosaibi said.
Does everything has to come from the king?? I mean do Saudi people really don't have their own common sense and coscience. I mean this is the same royal king to forcedfully made every Saudi a Quran Graduate so they would become women hating, jihand mongering turban head terrorists.

He referred to the ministry’s efforts in dealing with false Saudization claims (when employers fabricate their Saudi employment quotas) and illegal visa transactions as well as imposing Saudization regulations. He said the ministry would continue its efforts to expand job opportunities for women in the light of a Cabinet decision that had also called for developing a partnership between the ministry and the private sector.
Or how about the other way around. Companies claming false saudization because you are simply brute forcing it onto them and they simply cant find enound turban heads to fill the seats???

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Honestly speaking, this article was total rubbish and idiotic even as a propoganda. While it uncovers zero useful details, its just exploiting the human instinct of keeping hope and goes on and on repeating the same mantra followed by false statics. The truth is that Saudi labour force cannot developed until this culture of opression is wiped clean. Until your men will stop wasting youth chasing women, keeping an eye on their sisters and daughters and being their chaperone for life. Otherwise there is too little time left to work for them.