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RIYADH – Several companies failing to meet Saudization requirements are hiring university students on fake job contracts with salaries of up to SR4,000 while granting the employee only SR2,000 per month, 50 percent of the salary provided by the Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF) in support of employment of Saudis.
In effect, such organizations pay their employees no salary and did not allow the employee to assume the job, while the organization receives full points from the Ministry of Labor for meeting Saudization quotas.
Employment specialist, Abdullah Al-Zuhairi, confirmed that students’ physical conditions are forcing them to engage in these schemes in order to obtain a salary to help make ends meet.
Al-Zuhairi pointed out that the student maintains the fake job for two years only, and often the employee’s relationship with the organization ends when it stops receiving payments from HRDF.
He stressed that a student who has received support from HRDF for a period of two years has less chance of getting another post-graduation job.
The fund gives priority to other graduates who did not get support before.
The official stressed that the private sector institutions give priority in hiring young people who did not get HRDF support.
© The Saudi Gazette 2016
