QNA
Doha
The Ministry of Labour received around 18,027 new applications for recruitment, of which 10,935 applications were approved and 7,092 applications were rejected in the month of June, according to the monthly statistical bulletin for June 2023.
The ministry also received 3,303 applications for profession modification, among which 3,262 applications were approved and 41 others were rejected.
According to the bulletin, the number of work permit applications submitted to the ministry during the month of June reached 929, including 600 applications for permit renewal, 56 applications for issuing a new permit and 273 applications for cancelling issued permits.
In terms of inspection visits to labour recruitment offices, the bulletin showed that the ministry carried out 152 inspection visits of recruitment offices, 147 of which ended in acceptance, four of them in violation and one visit resulted with notice of removing a violation.
During the month of June, the Labour Inspection Department carried out intensive inspection campaigns to monitor the extent to which establishments comply with laws and ministerial decisions concerned with regulating the labour market in the country, with a total number of 4,472 inspection visits in various regions, which resulted in sending warnings to 522 companies to remove the violation, while 50 violations were recorded against some companies.
Regarding labour complaints, the bulletin showed that the Department of Labour Relations received 2,210 complaints from workers against their employing establishments, of which 546 complaints were settled, 46 were referred to the Labour Dispute Settlement Committees and 1,659 complaints remained under process.
The Labour Relations Department also received 111 complaints from the public and all of them were settled.
According to the report with regard to the Labour Dispute Settlement Committees, 16 cases were referred to the dispute settlement committees during the month, and the Labour Dispute Settlement Committees issued 552 decisions, while 951 cases are still under process.
