QNA
Doha
The Ministry of Labour received around 3,996 applications for new recruitment, among which 3,942 applications were approved and 54 were rejected, according to the ministry’s monthly statistical report for April 2023 released on Saturday.
The bulletin showed that the total number of requests to modify the profession was about 2,087, of which 2,072 were approved and 15 were rejected.
According to the bulletin, the number of work permit applications submitted to the ministry during the month of April amounted to about 242, including 172 applications for permit renewal and 70 applications for cancelling issued permits.
In terms of inspection visits to labour recruitment offices, the statistical bulletin showed that the ministry carried out about 62 inspection visits, with 61 visits in which no observations were recorded, and one warning was issued to remove a violation.
During the month of April, the Labour Inspection Department carried out intensive inspection campaigns to monitor the extent to which establishments comply with the laws and ministerial decisions concerned with regulating the labour market in the country, with a total number of inspection visits of 3,094 visits in various regions, which resulted in issuing 675 warnings.
With regard to labour complaints, the statistical bulletin showed that the Labour Dispute Settlement Department received about 785 complaints from workers, of which 85 complaints were settled and eight of them were referred to the Labour Dispute Settlement Committees, and about 692 complaints remain under process.
The Labour Relations Department also received 162 complaints from the public, all of which have been settled.
According to the bulletin regarding the labour dispute settlement committees, a total of 132 cases were referred to the dispute settlement committees during the past month and the Labour dispute settlement committees issued about 386 decisions, while about 579 decisions are still under process.
