The Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, Ahmed bin Sulaiman Al-Rajhi, confirmed that the ministry is targeting 11 new Emiratisation decisions before the end of the current year 2022, including the professions of project management, procurement, and the food and drug sector.
Al-Rajhi explained, during his meeting today (Sunday), with businessmen and women in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Riyadh, that the decisions to resettle the sectors, activities and professions contributed to the increase in the number of citizens working in the private sector to more than 2.13 million male and female citizens, and the reduction of the unemployment rate to 9.7%, and the increase in the number of citizens working in the private sector. The economic participation rate for women is 35.6%.
He pointed out that the percentage of compliance of private sector establishments with the labor system and its regulations reached 98% during this year, and that more than 74% of labor cases are resolved amicably, indicating that the compliance rate in the wage protection program reached nearly 80%, and more than 3.8 million work contracts in the Tawtheeq program, and electronic digitization of contracts.
He noted that the number of services provided in (Qiwa platform) reached 127 services, serving more than 3 million users and more than one million companies. It also provides more than 700,000 services per month to beneficiaries without the need to visit service offices, explaining that the Ministry has expanded the services of ( Musaned platform) from one service to more than 35 100% automated services, serving more than two million beneficiaries.
