More job opportunities
MUSCAT — The private sector in the Sultanate has vast employment opportunities for Omani job-seekers, said Shaikh Abdullah bin Nasser al Bakri, Minister of Manpower, during an annual meeting with the ministry’s department heads at Oman Tourism College.
The minister pointed out that the private sector provided jobs for 62,762 citizens out of 104,475 job-seekers employed in different sectors last year.
Al Bakri noted that the private sector witnessed a high rate of resignations among citizens who wished to join the government sector.
He urged all those concerned to increase the employment opportunities regulate the labour market and the recruitment of expatriates in the private sector. He added that the joint sectoral committees for Omanisation now have representatives of the industrial stakeholders to develop general policies for the committees and approve their plans and mechanisms.
He said the Strategic Planning Committees approved a plan to develop inspection and increase the efficiency of occupational health and safety.
In this context, the minister referred to an MOU that the Sultanate signed with the International Labour Organisation last year on safeguarding the interests of all “three parties of production”, which are the government, the employers and the workers.
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