What is your opinion about replacing expats with Bahrainis in key sectors?
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It’s a very important and strategic decision to make. But the approach and wording used were wrong. Rather than replacing expats with Bahrainis, it should be to make Bahrainis ready for those jobs taken by expats. It requires long-term planning.
Having said that diversity is the key here. You need diversity in your organisation so that people from different backgrounds, cultures and ideas complement each other.
I believe we need to train our own population to make them better (it’s an ongoing process), yet welcome new ideas and expertise regardless of nationality and race.
Mobeen Sharif
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Some Bahraini MPs support this form of xenophobia because it attracts attention and gets them noticed in newspapers and social media. I view it as chest thumping posturing trying to get attention like a badly behaved child.
Any decent HR specialist will tell you that the job should be done by the most suitable candidate and stipulating that they must be Bahraini is not only blatant racism, but excludes many other suitable candidates for the role.
With so much discussion around diversity these days, this clearly demonstrates how narrow minded and out of touch some Bahrain MPs can be.
Mike Jackson
Mike Jackson
That is not a great idea even if my children are Franco-Bahraini. For me and others the great mix and know-how should not have any colour or nationality. We can very well continue to collaborate together. However, adjusting the training and salaries of the locals would be in my opinion the best option.
Louisa Lamine
Louisa Lamine
It’s not a good proposal. Suitable candidate to be hired irrespective of nationality. To be linked to merit rather biased approach. They must plan to develop skill for local youngsters.
Venkatesh Kulkarni
Venkatesh Kulkarni
I am not sure it is a smart move. I’d rather hire (or retain) the best candidate, disregarding the nationality.
Even with the existing legal framework, nothing would prevent me from hiring a suitable Bahraini in place of an expat, if I believed that the former is better than the latter for the future of my company. Making it compulsory, and not linked to merits, would only go to the detriment of “business friendliness and freedom”, companies’ and the country’s attractiveness and best interest.
Livio Garavaldi
Livio Garavaldi
Very good proposal.
Faraz Ahmed
Better late than never. All-round skill development to be enhanced to local qualified youth before replacing with expats.
Bhaskar Rao
Bhaskar Rao
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Let them both work together.
@eylanat_bh
Competence matters, experience, knowledge and skills – it’s easeir said than done!
@tonnieh4
@tonnieh4
Selections should be based on merit, skills and experience and not on nationality.
@hirolisameer
@hirolisameer
Great idea. Start replacing car cleaners, labourers and sweepers.
@ujmee
@ujmee
If Bahrainis are qualified and suitable for the job and still not being hired then the priority is to get them jobs. This is their country and they should be able to hold positions of work here.
@sarasoraroxas
@sarasoraroxas
Locals are always the first priority in all jobs and fields. Expats are needed in any country as a last resort. It’s true for all the countries. Whether you like it or not.
@bu_barzaan
@bu_barzaan
It doesn’t matter what nationality you are! The only thing that matters is how well you know your job.
@janka2313
@janka2313
No. Expats deserve equal respect and attention, let both expats and locals work together in harmony and equality. Let the stand of judgement be based on skill, experience and intelligence and not on any nationality.
@_achsah_257
The population of America is about 335 million and 48m are foreign-born or having citizenship but I have never heard anyone
saying like this, to replace them with nationals.
@rosesmiles4all
@rosesmiles4all
Bahrainis are highly intelligent and more than capable and competent. Some describe them as being lazy which is why employers prefer to hire expats but if 100 per cent Bahrainisation were to take place, people would be amazed at how well the Bahraini people would step up to the plate and show how capable they are.
I think in fairness though, if 100pc Bahrainisation should take place then the laws should also protect the employer and enable the opportunity to fire a Bahraini rather than protect them and make it impossible to fire them without lengthy court cases that end up costing the employer thousands.
Bahrainis should not be given special privileges as such and at the end of the day, this is their country so they have every right to demand that they are given priority. I’m all for supporting the Bahraini people.
@chickadee1975
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