140,000 Filipinos could lose their jobs in Saudi
90,000 maids may lose their jobs because Saudi doesn't want to pay a decent wage, but the real reason is that there have been a lot of complaints of abuse. The Phil gov't now insists that those employing maids register the address where the maids will work with the gov't ( a policy that enables the gov't to ensure they are not being abused). 2008 Report about abuse HERE.
Saudi has banned both Pinoy and Indonesian maids over these human rights issues.
But another policy that will result in more Filipinos coming home is "saudification": The new gov't reg that requires employers to hire a certain percentage of their employees locally.
Another 90,000 Filipinos of the 1.3 million working there could be affected by the new policy of imposing quotas for local staff, although the specialized skills of the majority should allow many to hang on to their jobs, she added... the “Saudization” policy would affect mainly unskilled workers like manual laborers, janitors, drivers and gardeners, she added.
Traditionally, Saudis work at cushy gov't jobs, while employers in the private sector hire hard working foreigners. This results in a 12 percent unemployment rate among locals, meaning more idle young men getting into mischief...
another factoid about Saudi:
These foreigners comprise 27 percent of the Saudi population...
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Forbes has an article about China: Inflation and fewer workers mean a lot of empty buildings, and then there may be inflation.
then there is the rich/poor divide and the millions of unemployed sent home when overseas orders fall and fewer workers are needed.
The WSJ describes China as "resilient" but their economic and other aggression in taking over resources that belong to others (via threats, as in the Spratlys, or by bribing tyrants and politicians, as in the Sudan, Congo, and Zimbabwe) may backfire...
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another day, another earthquake...no it didn't hit here.
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The UN and "civil societies" (read US money) are pressuring the Philippines to pass a RH bill.
The bishops oppose it, so the gov't is accusing the bishops of taking bribes by accepting money to buy SUV's "for personal use" from the Charity sweepstakes office...
This in a country where 20 percent is the usual kickback on all contracts, votes are bought for 20 dollars a piece, and millions of pesos were diverted from fertilizer and rice imports to politicians...
Old lefty bishop Cruz tells of turning down two gifts from politicians: yet he doesn't condemn those who took charity money so they could help their people...
and for some reason, the Senate committee seems to be targeting Catholics: or maybe they are merely being caught in the cross fire over investigating our lovely ex president Gloria...
full report on the (pro Arroyo) Manila Bulletin.
the (anti Arroyo) Phil Inquirer report HERE.Uriarte testified that the PCSO did not give Mitsubishi Pajeros to the Catholic Church but sent checks to religious leaders to buy 4x4 vehicles as requested for their charity and medical work in rugged, mountainous areas.
She stressed that the religious officials, in their requests to the PCSO, asked for these vehicles not for their personal use.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and the other senators – Franklin M. Drilon, Francis Escudero, Panfilo M. Lacson and Guingona - reminded Uriarte to be careful in her testimony as she linked former President, now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, to the questionable PCSO intelligence operations.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, now Pampanga representative, may face charges of plunder over allegations that she had approved the allocation of hundreds of millions of pesos in charity funds for possibly nonexistent projects.
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