MUSCAT — Shaikh Abdullah bin Nasser al Bakri, Minister of Manpower, valued the service rendered by the manpower recruitment offices and stressed his ministry’s keenness to develop the work of these offices in such a way that guarantees the rights of all parties.
Speaking at a joint meeting here yesterday with owners of expatriate manpower recruitment offices, Al Bakri said that a selected number of manpower offices will be allowed to recruit five workers for a period of six months. The offices had already been allowed to recruit two translators each. The minister stressed that the offices should work harder to upgrade the standards of their services and to continue to liaise with the departments concerned at the ministry.
He called for the formation of a team of specialists from the ministry to work alongside a group of five representatives from the manpower recruitment offices to hold regular meetings to study the progress of work and ways to remove obstacles. He listened to the views of manpower offices owners on a variety of issues, including bank guarantees, durations for recruiting workers and the time frames set for repatriating workers. — ONA
