In the past two months the Ministry of Labour in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has announced the introduction of a new regulatory regime called the 'Nitaqat' programme.

Despite the new system, the existing Nitaqat procedure for categorizing companies based on their size and the industry in which they operate, ranking them on a color-coded scale...

As part of Saudi Arabia's ongoing Saudization campaign, the Ministry of Labor (MoL) identified this month 19 jobs that are restricted to Saudi Arabian nationals only.

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