Tabtabaei proposes 40-year minimum retirement age for Kuwaiti women
KUWAIT: MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei yesterday filed a number of proposals to amend the condition of decree number 23/2013 pertaining the minimum age of Kuwaiti women eligible for social aid and allowances, asking to reduce it from 55 to 40. Tabtabaei also proposed giving top officials (ministers, MPs undersecretaries and their assistants) dispatched on state missions only economy class flight tickets in order to help cut expenses.
In addition, Tabtabaei proposed building branches of Kuwait University, the basic studies college and the faculty of commercial studies in Ahmadi and Jahra and a Quran memorization center in Kaifan. Moreover, Tabtabaei filed an inquiry with the minister of state for Cabinet affairs concerning the measures followed by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) on nominating employees to certain leading positions.
In an attempt to fight fake degrees MPs Khalil Abul, Abdulwahab Al-Babtain, Oudah Al-Rowaei, Adnan Abdulsamad and Omar Al-Tabtabaei yesterday proposed incriminating those impersonating as others and those unlawfully using professional or scientific titles by fraud or forgery such as fake doctors, claiming to belong to the ruling family or impersonating as members of the military. The proposal suggested punishing such culprits with three years in prison and/or a KD 5,000 fine. It also suggested harsher penalties in case of repeating the same crime of five years in prison and/or a KD 15,000 fine.
Farmers’ union
Chairman of Kuwait Farmers Union’s fivemember committee Hadi Hajed Al-Watri said he had sent letters on Dec 4, 2016 to His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak AlSabah and Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Subaih concerning the Public Manpower Authority’s rejection of the committee formed by the union’s general assembly consensus. Watri added that the committee chairman and members officially requested a meeting with both officials to explain what he described as the unjustified interference of the manpower authority, which undermines the union’s efforts in achieving food security. He explained that five veteran farmers were nominated by the general assembly to run the union’s errands until a new board of directors is elected next month, but the manpower authority had broken its promises to grant them accreditation so that they could run urgent matters of over 3,000 farmers.