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Interests class="ltx_title_subsection">
Interests of business persons and firms are represented through the Chambers of Commerce in 28 cities/provinces across the kingdom, under the umbrella of Council of Saudi Chambers. Chambers of Commerce are one of the few lobbies in Saudi, where two-thirds of the members of Board of Directors are elected every four years, and the remaining third are appointed by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Business persons and firms were cautious at best, and alarming and condemning at worst, while trying to show up supportive of enforcing the Residency Laws and Law of Workmen and Work, and ending unemployment among Saudi youth.
On the highest level of business owners, after more than a year of expiry of extended grace period, Abdulrahman Al-Zamil, Director of Council of Saudi Chambers, was careful to appear in support of the correction campaigns undertaken by the Ministries of Labor and Interior to regulate the saudi markets and end the violations of the foreign labor, emphasizing the importance of enforcing regulations. ...
journal = {Al-Yaum},
author = {al-Subayʿi, ʿUwayd},
}
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Foreign class="ltx_title_subsection">Foreign Labor and their Governments
Even Governments
Even though there are no accurate governmental data on the number of foreign labor in Saudi by nationality, al-Riyadh Newspapers reported estimates of the on the migrant labor by nationality, according to World Bank. ...
publisher = {Central Department Of Statistics and Information},
year = {2014},
}
" data-bib-key="_labour_2014" contenteditable="false">_labour_2014Then, overall, the campaign didn’t help to substantially decrease the unemployment rate among Saudis, and the high levels of unemployment persisted in the youth category (25-29 year-old) that it reached 38.9% in 2014. The likely explanation for the failure of the campaign in decreasing the rate of unemployment is that most of the unemployed are Bachelor's degree holders, with 51%, followed by high school certificate holders, with 34.4% while the majority of deported foreign labor possess low educational qualifications.