Saudi Arabia to expel up to 2 million workers

Deleted User wrote: »

Religious education is compulsory here as well!

Only for Catholics.

Einhard wrote: »

Ha, the chances of the average Saudi citizen applying for any type of menial job are nil to none. The reason they have 10 million foreigners in the country to sweep the streets, make the tea, mind the babies, teach the children, build the roads, drive the taxis is because the locals wouldn't be caught dead doing so. And, as long as the authorities bribe the populace with grants and goodies to ensure they won't revolt, then they won't have to. Idiotic move.

crybaby wrote: »

Only 11 percent of workers in the private sector are Saudi nationals, the sheer laziness is mind boggling. Sweeping a street, driving a taxi or cooking a meal is beneath them

About time they get off their oil rich holes and started working

Is there not an irony somewhere of tarring each and every Saudi citizen as a lazy obese maid raping misogynist getting fat of the blood and sweat of their migrant workers?

woodoo wrote: »

If a European country was to do the same what word would we see used repeatedly... you guessed it... the word RACIST.

The Saudi economy is in decline seemingly, what else do you expect them to do? If we had done like the rest of the EU in 2003 and went down the route of renewable work permits and such, which under the EU law at the time we were perfectly entitled to do, we may not have gotten into quite as deep of a crisis as we have. But of course, to come up with a scheme like that would be Fianna Fail effectively admitting there was some possibility the CT might not last forever, and sure talk like that would be sure to give the contributors at the Galway Races the s'hits about how the days of being knee deep in Bulgarian apartments might be a bad move.

And exactly how exploited are the bulk of these workers? Now, I don't know if any of you have even been there but people are claiming that every taxi driver, street sweeper, bus driver, security guard, retail worker and so on and so forth is foreign. I know in Qatar many of the Nepalese work as construction labourers in awful conditions- their life consists of little but the site and the hostel provided for them. They are fed rations and paid a wage only mildly better than their home country despite living in a nation where a night out would probably cost them their years wages. They live for years in a country where they likely never buy a single item, working on sites where the architect is on Western wages and the labourers (and, I would guess, even the bulk of the tradesmen) are on a few bucks a day.

That is exploitation. Working a minimum wage job that allows the worker to pay their own rent and save some amount of money is anything but. I know workers living with their employers in Saudi are often abused, but people like the aforementioned bus and taxi drivers? Really? Not to mention that with th scrutiny that Western human rights organisations put on firms outsourcing work to abusive employers (Apple in China for example) I would be somewhat doubtful that the US and UK oil firms out there are paying the site cleaners and general hands a complete pittance and getting away with it.