01/01/2016
Three stages for hiring as from 1 January 2016:
The new procedures of recruiting foreign workers from outside the country for a two-year work visa will be in three stages.
Firstly, the employer applies for quota regardless of the number of workers recruited, the second demands handing over a printed offer letter containing a comprehensive description of their rights, duties, terms and conditions, through Tas'heel service centres or through the 'MoLApp' smartphone application.
Secondly, employers should electronically sign a job offer, send it to the worker regardless of their location.
The job offer should then be either signed or fingerprinted as required.
The offer will be in both Arabic and English in addition to a third language that the worker understands, which can be available on the ministry's website.
Each worker can review their work contract through the ministry's website after registering on it using their passport number, nationality and their transaction number as each has its own code.
During the work permit extraction stage, employers attach the signed offer letter by the worker for the initial approval.
The ministry then works on reviewing the application to make sure it meets all the requirements and then issues the permit, which allows the worker to come work in the country under a work permit.
The electronic system will not allow new job offers for workers during the initial approval stages and replacing work permits will be treated according to specific procedures under issuing new work permit measurements.
It's not mandatory to include medical report with job offers, especially that today we are electronic linked with the Residency and Foreigners Affairs, which does not issue workers a residence visa with medical report.
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