Saudi Changed to Friday-Saturday Weekend

The world’s largest oil-producing country, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is now changing its weekend to Friday-Saturday from its previous Thursday-Friday Weekend. The official SPA News Agency reported on Sunday quoting a royal decree of the switch to better serve its economy and “international commitments.” The country became the last of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation … Read more

Amnesty for Illegal OFW’s in Saudi Ends on July 3, 2013

One of the Philippines largest concentration of OFW’s, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will end their amnesty program for illegal migrant workers. The 90-day grace period will end this coming July 3, 2013. Filipino migrant group, Migrante Internationl stated on Monday, that there are at least 22,000 undocumented OFW’s working in Saudi Arabia which will … Read more

Saudization Program Impacts on OFW in Saudi Arabia

Saudization Program

Saudization Program was a policy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as an encouragement for the local residents to be employed by the private sectors. Some of the measures used by the Saudi government to implement the Saudization program such as warnings to companies who do not comply with the program. One of the latest … Read more