Kenya Saudi Bilateral Agreement
"Between August and December 2021, we will review bilateral working agreements with Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia to improve the protection of Kenyan migrants," said NEA Director General Edith Okoki. Chelugui said the two governments would sign a bilateral agreement on laws regulating the employment of Kenyan immigrants in Saudi Arabia. Jordan and Nepal signed a cooperation agreement to increase the employment of Nepalese workers in Jordan, emphasizing the responsibility of both countries in regulating employment and hiring costs and safeguarding the rights of workers, employers and agencies. Saudi Arabia signed a second agreement with the Philippines in 2017 on cooperation on labour migration and the recruitment and employment of workers from the Philippines to Saudi Arabia. Kenya will complete by December a review of bilateral labour agreements (NAPAs) with three Middle Eastern countries on migrant workers` wage management, social assistance and dispute settlement. Kenya has agreed to lift its three-year ban on its nationals working as domestic workers in GCC countries and has signed a bilateral labour agreement with Qatar and another with Saudi Arabia. "Yes, something has to be done. What is that. Charity begins at home. Stop corruption at home and our citizens don`t have to travel outside the country to look for greener pastures. All these trips will not solve any problems. No law or agreement will change that.
Chelugui said the government had signed a bilateral labor agreement with Qatar that had passed Kenyan laws to protect the country`s migrant workers. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [Reuters] Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic have signed a memorandum of understanding on the reciprocal exemption from entry visas for holders of diplomatic, service, private and official passports. The SC was responding to the general secretary of the Central Trade Union Organization (COTU), Francis Atwoli, who accused the ministry of failing to protect Kenyans employed in Saudi Arabia. The NEA said it would review the regulations of private employment agencies to improve ethical recruitment and increase accountability. Saudi Arabia is also home to about 20,000 Kenyan skilled and domestic workers. [2] The Secretary of the Working Room, Simon Chelugui, said during next month`s visit that officials would try to find a permanent solution to the problem. Ministry of Labour officials will visit Saudi Arabia to deal with cases of ill-treatment of Kenyans working in the Middle Eastern country. He added that the government also plans to amend immigration laws to regulate those who leave the country to work abroad. "We want to control the immigration of Kenyans seeking work outside the country so that Kenyans working in other countries are safe in those countries," the SC said.
This comes amid revelations that Kenya has recorded 93 deaths of Kenyans working in the Middle East over the past three years. Data from the Ministry of Labour shows that 87,784 Kenyans benefited from job facilitation in the Gulf region, the majority of whom ended up in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Atwoli said most Kenyans in the country are treated like slaves, adding that the rate at which Kenyans have been killed is alarming. . Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection Simon Chelugui said during next month`s visit that Kenya was trying to address the mistreatment of its nationals once and for all. Should Kenyans go to the Middle East? Wacheni kuWaste time and money. Members of Parliament during a session in the Houses of Parliament. | PHOTO Last week, Labor Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui did not provide a detailed breakdown of the areas where the 93 victims were buried in the country.
Chelugui assured that the board of directors recently appointed by the government as new directors of the National Labor Council will be published shortly. He said the people recruited by these agents did not have the proper documents to allow the government to process their return. MP-designate Godfrey Otsotsi promised to provide video and audio recordings of the woman and begged her employer and staff agency United Manpower Services Limited to bring her back to Kenya. He said the recruitment officer refused to hear the Kenyan worker`s calls after the Saudi employer abused and tortured her, including denying her meals. In 2013, Kenyan imports from Saudi Arabia were held by KES. €64 billion (€603 million). The total trade between the two countries was KES. €68 billion (€636 million).
This has made Saudi Arabia Kenya`s 9th largest trading partner. [4] But Chelugui said the Kenyans mistreated in Saudi Arabia are immigrants who have been ousted from the country by unscrupulous labor brokers. . Relations between Saudi Arabia and Kenya are cordial. President Daniel arap Moi visited Saudi Arabia in 1979 and 1983. Foreign Minister Chirau Ali Mwak visited Saudi Arabia in 2005. [1] President Mwai Kibaki also visited Saudi Arabia in 2012. . "By allowing these agencies to operate, we condemn slavery, but our people expect a change from us, who are responsible," Atwoli said.
"I was shocked to learn that the Social Welfare Agency had been removed from the Ministry of Labour," Atwoli said. The National Employment Agency (NEA) told parliament that it would review blahs with Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia from August. NAPAs will address employers` collection of travel documents, restrictions, minimum wage, dispute settlement and contract replacement, replacing agreed pacts with strict conditions. Atwoli had also criticized the government`s decision to withdraw social protection from the Ministry of Labor. He argued that the related issues dealt with labour matters and should therefore have been left to this department. Officials appeared before the Senate Labor and Social Affairs Committee to explain the circumstances of the death of Melvin Kang`ereha – a young woman who died in a Saudi prison where she was being held for threatening to kill her employer. This action document summarises the projects that will be carried out in Egypt in 2017 under the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Stability and Addressing the Root Causes of Irregular Migration and Displaced Persons in Africa. The overall objective of the proposed measure is to improve the response to migration problems in Egypt. .