Kuwait to stop hiring foreign workers for oil sector

Thursday, 11 June 2020Newsdesk

Kuwait will no longer hire expatriates for jobs in its oil sector as the OPEC member moves to reduce the number of foreigners in the country.Non-Kuwaiti nationals won't be hired at Kuwait Petroleum Corp., the main state-run energy producer, and its subsidiaries for 2020-2021, Kuwait News Agency reported, citing Oil Minister Khaled Al-Fadhel.

New Delhi, 11 June 2020

As per news report of Gulf News, Kuwait doesn’t want to be an expat-majority nation anymore. Kuwait's prime minister last week said the country's expatriate population should be more than halved to 30% of the total, as the coronavirus pandemic and a slump in oil prices send shudders through Gulf economies.

Source -gulfnews.com