Two million expatriate workers in Saudi Arabia, the majority of them Indians, fear they will lose their jobs after Nitaqat, the workforce nationalisation law, came fully into effect yesterday in Saudi Arabia.
"Already hundreds of Indian workers have started to return home hopelessly. Almost all the flights to India are full of returnee migrants. It is a sad situation," Nasser Karakunnu, a Saudi-based social worker from the south Indian state of Kerala, told Times of Oman by phone.
The Nitaqat law, introduced to accelerate the nationalisation process, makes it mandatory for small and medium businesses to hire one Saudi national for every 10 migrant workers they employ.
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