DOHA: The Permanent Recruitment Committee at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has launched a number of electronic services for companies and institutions to help meet their recruitment needs.
Applicants can now make their requests online to recruit foreign workers using their ‘Smart IDs’ in cooperation with the information and communications technology ministry. The new service comes in handy for recruiters as it saves them time and effort, according to the chairman of the committee.
Ibrahim Abdullah Al Duhaimi said the role of the committee is to study a recruitment request and approve or reject it.
Only those applications are rejected which are made by blacklisted companies. Their recruitment applications are not approved until they have rectified their situation and their names are removed from the black list.
Approvals of eligible requests are fast and the entire transaction of a company or other entity is processed in a week, he said.
The committee now meets four times in a week to conduct its business due to huge rush. Earlier, it met only twice a week.
Deputy chairman of the committee, Brigadier Nasser Jaber Al Attiyah, said there is close cooperation between the Permanent Committee and the recruitment committee at the interior ministry. He told the Police Periodical ‘Al -Shurta Ma’ak’ (The Police With You) that there also is a joint committee between the labor and interior ministries.
The job of the joint committee, for instance, is changing occupations of workers on their request. Al Attiyah said that there are certain requirements that recruiters must fulfill to be eligible to hire foreign workers.
They must, for example, furnish bank statements showing they have paid their workers their salaries and must obtain a letter from the Manpower Department saying that the workers they want from abroad are not available in the Qatari community.
“They must also sign an undertaking saying that they don’t have reservations against any nationality or nationalities,” said Al Attiyah. One of the jobs of the Permanent Recruitment Committee is to decide the nationality of a worker being hired as labor agreements signed with different countries must be respected, Al Duhaimi said earlier.
Brigadier Nasser Mohamed Isa Al Sayed, director of the Search and Follow-Up Department at the interior ministry, and a member of the Permanent Committee, said that his department informs the Permanent Committee about runaway workers or workers who have been caught with no job and the companies that brought them here.
One of the reasons for some workers not having any job is that the companies that bring them have no work for them, said Al Sayed. Such companies are strictly monitored and taken to task as the matter is referred to public prosecution.
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DOHA: The Permanent Recruitment Committee at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has launched a number of electronic services for companies and institutions to help meet their recruitment needs.
Applicants can now make their requests online to recruit foreign workers using their ‘Smart IDs’ in cooperation with the information and communications technology ministry. The new service comes in handy for recruiters as it saves them time and effort, according to the chairman of the committee.
Ibrahim Abdullah Al Duhaimi said the role of the committee is to study a recruitment request and approve or reject it.
Only those applications are rejected which are made by blacklisted companies. Their recruitment applications are not approved until they have rectified their situation and their names are removed from the black list.
Approvals of eligible requests are fast and the entire transaction of a company or other entity is processed in a week, he said.
The committee now meets four times in a week to conduct its business due to huge rush. Earlier, it met only twice a week.
Deputy chairman of the committee, Brigadier Nasser Jaber Al Attiyah, said there is close cooperation between the Permanent Committee and the recruitment committee at the interior ministry. He told the Police Periodical ‘Al -Shurta Ma’ak’ (The Police With You) that there also is a joint committee between the labor and interior ministries.
The job of the joint committee, for instance, is changing occupations of workers on their request. Al Attiyah said that there are certain requirements that recruiters must fulfill to be eligible to hire foreign workers.
They must, for example, furnish bank statements showing they have paid their workers their salaries and must obtain a letter from the Manpower Department saying that the workers they want from abroad are not available in the Qatari community.
“They must also sign an undertaking saying that they don’t have reservations against any nationality or nationalities,” said Al Attiyah. One of the jobs of the Permanent Recruitment Committee is to decide the nationality of a worker being hired as labor agreements signed with different countries must be respected, Al Duhaimi said earlier.
Brigadier Nasser Mohamed Isa Al Sayed, director of the Search and Follow-Up Department at the interior ministry, and a member of the Permanent Committee, said that his department informs the Permanent Committee about runaway workers or workers who have been caught with no job and the companies that brought them here.
One of the reasons for some workers not having any job is that the companies that bring them have no work for them, said Al Sayed. Such companies are strictly monitored and taken to task as the matter is referred to public prosecution.
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