A bleeding Heart Organization, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has seen fit to start working on the plight of people migrating for work to the GCC.
The quoted article from the Gulf News announces the fact that 2 Million unskilled workers will now be able to stay for a maximum period of 6 years. I am sure they are dancing in the streets for the great advance you have bough in their lives - NOT!!!! If this becomes a reality millions of people - both here and in their home countries wil be adversly affected. Also see Article in the NewIndPress - UAE may grant 6-yr residence visa to unskilled foreign labour.
I am sure they really appreciate the hard work you are doing on their behalf, dear people of the IOM as they can now lose the ability to work for longer terms in the UAE.
- When you decided to embark upon these issues out of the kindness of your heart, have you actually spoken to these people, tried tounderstand their issues, problems, opportunities?
- Do you understand that they also wish to have longer term employment contracts and build relationships with their employers?
- That they would like to receive in job training and advance in their careers - which is not possible with short term contracts?
- That they will just have to migrate to another country where they will have to start afresh as there is no employment available in their home countries?
- Do you understand what they go through to find these jobs and what it costs them in financial and personal terms to get here?
- Did you actually think this through? DID YOU ACTUALLY THINK!!!
Maybe - next time - before you think up these great humanitarian life saving efforts try and understand the bigger picture - get out of your nice Geneva office and understand that some people are already in the UAE for more than 10-15 years and they earn a half decent living, have at least some sort of career and has built relationships with their employers and is able to send money back home to educate their children, support their parents and siblings as opposed to be workless beggars in their home countries. If they have to leave - it will be for another GCC country where this process will just start from the beginning - where they will have to pay another unscupulous agent to get a visa, start working from the bottom rung again, make new friends - to get to know new people, new rules, new laws etc. etc. etc. Iwonder - do you have any idea what you are doing!
A good idea could be for you to change the reasons why they had to migrate for work in the first place such as lack of economic growth, no work opportunities, civil war, political instability etc. before you ruin the lives they currently have.
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Unskilled workers can stay for 6 years: Al Ka abi
By Samir Salama, Bureau Chief
Abu Dhabi:
Unskilled foreign workers and domestic help will be allowed a maximum stay of six years in the UAE, the Minister of Labour said yesterday.
Speaking to Gulf News from Geneva, Dr Ali Bin Abdullah Al Ka'abi said a total of 2 million unskilled workers will be considered "temporary contractual workers under an agreement with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)".
"The UAE will receive an official document from the IOM recognising the change of the orkers' position from being immigrants to temporary contractual workers," Al Ka'abi said.
"This will allow the country to proceed with rules making the maximum stay of workers six years an initial stay of 3 years to be renewed only once for a similar period," he said.______________________________
