According to data from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development's Musaned platform, the number of domestic labour recruitments in Saudi Arabia increased by 15% in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Musaned is a website dedicated to the hiring of domestic helpers. The number of nations available for recruitment through the Musaned platform has grown to over 14. In the current year of 2022, the platform is trying to incorporate more additional countries for recruitment.
- Saudi Arabia is also concerned that the new countries supplying domestic labour meet the Saudi family's needs, based on a variety of research and factors, such as epidemics, crime rates, language, educational level, estimated recruitment costs, salaries, and so on.
- According to the Musaned platform, contracts for the recruitment of domestic employees increased in the fourth quarter of last year. It was 65,000 contracts in October, rising to over 69,000 contracts in November, and then beyond the ceiling of 76,000 contracts in December, indicating a steady increase in the number of recruitment contracts towards the end of the year 2021.
- Bangladesh led the list of nations with the most contracts for the recruitment of domestic workers through the Musaned platform in December 2021, with more than 12,000 contracts, followed by Pakistan with more than 11,000 contracts and India with around 11,000 contracts. In comparison to the months of October and November, the latter saw a strong turnout in contracting.
- Prior to that, the Philippines recorded 13,000 contracts in November, followed by Bangladesh with 13,000 contracts and Egypt with more than 9,000 contracts, while the overall recruitment contracts from the Philippines totaled 13,000 contracts in October. Bangladesh came in second with over 11,000 contracts, followed by Uganda in third with over 10,000 contracts.
- The Musaned platform aims to govern, automate, and simplify procedures for the recruitment of domestic workers, as well as increase the level of preservation of all parties' rights, by managing the contracting process between individuals and recruitment offices, as well as managing the relationship between recruitment offices and domestic labour exporting offices in sending countries, among other services and features.
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