The Bahrainisation parliamentary probe committee has called for the establishment of a central body or committee to be responsible for the Bahrainisation of jobs in the public and private sectors.
Probe committee chairman MP Muneer Suroor said that this body will scrutinise applications for jobs and work to increase Bahrainisation to no less than 90 per cent in government institutions and companies including the Central Bank of Bahrain and the banking sector.
Ministries and companies will be required to publish bi-annual reports indicating the level of Bahrainisation they have achieved. The proposal calls for offering incentives and more facilities to companies that comply with the Bahrainisation quota, Mr Suroor said in an interview with our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej.
“There is a clear discrepancy between the number of Bahrainis who join job-training programmes and those who get employed. The number of trainees exceeds by far the number of those who get hired. The government puts a lot of money into training but the outcome is not commensurate with the investment,” he said.
He described the initiatives of the government and the Labour Fund (Tamkeen) as ineffective. “The Labour Ministry has decided to take the easy route of training instead of creating job opportunities.
“There are no proper plans to replace foreigners with Bahrainis in the private sector. One of the problems that the Bahrainisation drive faces is that the majority of companies are controlled by expatriates who tend to bring in their compatriots or relatives.”
He said that the committee’s report identified six obstacles, arrived at 19 conclusions and came up with 29 proposals.
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