Saudi Arabia orders three-month delay to illegal worker crackdown - Alarabiya.net English

Dans la rubrique rien ne va plus en Arabie...
la menace de bloquer Skype/Whatsapp etc. n’inquiète pas que les bloggeurs de nationalité saoudienne, dont le gouvernmenet s’inquiète mais aussi les invisibles, ceux qui travaillent loin de chez eux et qui appellent gratuitement par Skype :

“My life will end without Skype,” said Muhammad Saleem, a Saudi who runs a textile business in Riyadh and uses video conferencing on Skype to coordinate with his distributors in Qatar and Oman daily.

He explained that it is not just an application for him, but rather an indispensable part of his work and, if banned, his business might come to an end.

Naeem Ahmad, a Pakistani worker, uses Skype to talk to his wife and children back home.

“For expatriates like us, who don’t earn a lot, Skype is the best option since it’s free of cost and offers excellent voice and image quality,” he said.

▻http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20130405160000

Suite à a rubrique rien ne va plus en Arabie...
l’Arabie a décidé de suspendre l’application de la loi sur le travail illégal et la déportation des travailleurs qui ne sont pas enrègle.

Saudi Arabia orders three-month delay to illegal worker crackdown

“King Abdullah directed both the Interior Ministry and the Labor Ministry to give an opportunity to workers in breach of the labor and residency regulations in the kingdom to clarify their status in a period not exceeding three months,” said a statement carried on official media.

le fond du problème :

Under Saudi law, expatriates have to be sponsored by their employer, but many switch jobs without transferring their residency papers.

That has allowed companies to dodge strict Labor Ministry quotas regulating the number of Saudis and expatriates each firm can employ by booking their foreign workers under a different sponsor. Companies with too few Saudi employees face fines.

It has also led to the emergence of a labor black market in which sponsors illegally charge expatriates to renew their residence documents when they in fact work for somebody else.

▻http://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/economy/2013/04/07/Saudi-king-orders-three-month-delay-to-illegal-worker-crackdown.h