Isa Al Shaiji during his official tour in LMRA
Chairman of Bahrain Association of Journalists Mr. Isa Al Shaiji praised the efforts done by the LMRA to regulate the labour market in Bahrain and clean-up the market from negative practices.
LMRA has organized a dedicated workshop for Journalists on Thursday 26th March to understand the figures of Labour Market Indicators which are issued by LMRA quarterly.
LMRA also has launched its first book with the title of “Basic concepts and definitions of Labour Market” by Dr. Farhad Mehran, the consultant of ILO and LMRA policies.
In the same event a new Media blog was introduced to be the way of communication between LMRA, Journalists and the public as a step ahead to next level of eGovernment standards.
In the end of his visit, Mr. Isa Al Shaiji praised the efforts of LMRA and its sincere direction to provide transparent and solid information about Labour Market and the high level of openness with Journalists to achieve their goals in publishing and conveying the right messages to the community.
Dr. Farhad Mehran launches LMRA's first bookPart of the Journalist's workshop
Tags: concepts, ferhad, Isa alshaiji, journalist, workshop
It is marvellous that LMRA acheived its best and now steps to launch Journalists Address will helps the people to understand about Lmra and its functions and will helps to eradicate some of the thoughts negatively about LMRA Functions.
Keep it up!!!!
i dont think Isa Al Shaiji has been through the silly and unsteady procedures of the LMRA. Whatever you try to do to polish your image, its your customers who are in direct contact with LMRA should judge you, Not others.
I seriously think the lmra could do better. The main problems that businesses are facing are due to the fixed employee fees and due to mandatory bahrainisation.
How is it fair for businesses when they have to pay 10BD for a 70BD worker and the same amount for a 700BD engineer? The “TCO” of the worker increases substantially when for the engineer its almost negligeble. This system mainly affects small businesses with small margins and smaller payouts to their workers. Even when large corporations start complaining about its effect one can imagine the toll it will take on small businesses.
Then the mandatory bahrainisation, for many of the jobs especially in the construction sector, there are not many bahrainis willing to take up job vacancies. Think about how many Bahraini Labourers you have seen. So, its mostly expats who work there. Now, how does one acheive the bahrainisation level without having bahrainis to fill these posts? Small companies will have many workers and maybe just one foreman or engineer. This situation is the same with other fields too. Its just more pronounced in the construction and related sectors.
Solution: Change the lmra fees structure to reflect the salary of the employee, like 5% of the salary, in my above mentioned example even 10% seems fair to the majority of small businesses.
Remove mandatory Bahrainisation, train and educate the bahrainis to compete and get the job, rather than be given the job by force. And the satisfaction that they get knowing that they got the job that they deserve will be very rewarding and encouraging.