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100,000 private sector jobs plan for Kuwaitis

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Amid a growing burden of youth employment in the public sector and the high unemployme­nt rate, Kuwait’s Cabinet has assigned the Public Authority for Manpower to create a plan to employ 100,000 citizens in the private sector in four years.

The plan, set to be implemente­d from next year, aims to reduce the pressure of paying salaries, which devours approximat­ely 60 per cent of the state budget, sources told Al Qabas newspaper.

The manpower authority was assigned to conduct studies on plans implemente­d by other Gulf Cooperatio­n Council countries on incentives to private sector companies to employ citizens and to identify high-priority jobs to attract local talents, in 2022.

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