Kuwait Trade Union Federation yesterday strongly blasted what it called the “unilateral” government approach in dealing with the issue of expatriate workers in the country and warned that Kuwait could become a target for international criticism over such policies. In a statement signed by Secretary of the Federation Fares Al-Sawwagh, the union said that the government has been adopting “random” policies toward expatriate workers without even consulting the Chamber of Commerce and the Workers Federation.
Sawwagh specifically criticized statements by Minister of Social Affairs and Labour Thekra Al-Rasheedi that Kuwait planned to reduce expatriates by 100,000 every year over the next 10 years. The number of expatriates at present is 2.6 million against 1.2 million Kuwaitis, according to official figures. The statement also criticized proposals that are being floated every now and then about withdrawing driving licences from certain expatriates or introducing a cap over their period of stay in the country and sometimes talking about introducing certain quotas for expat nationalities.
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