Saudi Arabia to replace expatriate workers with locals

By IANS,

Riyadh : Saudi Arabia has plans to improve competence of local workers to replace the eight million expatriate workers in the country, Xinhua reported Saturday.

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The government plans to offer training and higher salaries to attract locals to get jobs, especially the blue-collar ones, reported local daily Okaz citing a labor ministry source.

“Those jobs could be taken by locals with higher salaries if they ignored social misconceptions about blue-collar workers,” he said.

The main challenge to replace foreigner workers with Saudis lies in the construction sector, he said.