📋 Tender Overview
The Philippine Embassy in Saudi Arabia hosted the fourth meeting of the KSA Labor Forum on 27 September 2021. Delegates from Bangladesh India Indonesia Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka and Viet Nam all labor-sending countries attended the forum.Deputy Minister Sattam Alharbi of the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development MHRSD was the guest speaker for the forum. Mr. Alharbi is one of the principal authors of the Labor Reform Initiative LRI.Common issues experienced by the labor-sending countries were raised mainly on the vulnerability of the LRI to circumvention by unscrupulous employers the need to improve digital literacy among migrant workers of different skill levels and the exclusion of domestic workers from the LRI.In response Deputy Minister Alharbi assured the forum that MHRSD is taking measures to provide further protection for domestic workers such as increasing engagements with the Embassies of labor- sending countries to the Kingdom initiating awareness campaign on the benefits of the LRI and updating regulations to protect the rights and welfare of domestic workers.
