- Recruitment from several New Countries Added in 2022

According to "Musaned" platform of the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and 
Social Development, which is specialized in the recruitment of domestic 
workers, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recorded an increase in the total 
recruitment contracts of domestic workers during the fourth quarter of the year 
2021, where the rate of increase between October and December reached more than 
15%.

Saudi Arabia is utilizing "Musaned" platform to add several new countries to 
the recruitment of workers in the current year 2022. The Kingdom is also keen 
to have the domestic workers exported from the new countries fit the Saudi 
family, based on several studies and criteria, including: epidemics, crime 
rate, language, educational level, expected recruitment cost, salaries, and 
other criteria.

The platform indicated that the recruitment contracts of the domestic workers 
recorded an increase during the fourth quarter of the last year by amounting to 
65,000 contracts in October, rising in November to more than 69,000 contracts, 
while in December they exceeded the ceiling of 76,000 contracts, thus recording 
a steady increase in the number of recruitment contracts at the end of 2021.

"Musaned" platform indicated that Bangladesh topped the list of countries with 
the highest domestic workers recruitment contracts during the month of December 
of the year 2021 with more than 12 thousand contracts, while Pakistan came 
second with more than 11 thousand contracts, followed by the India with about 
11 thousand contracts. The latter recorded in December a higher turnout in 
issuing contracts compared to the months of October and November.

Based on the November records, Philippines recorded 13,000 recruitment 
contracts, followed by the Bangladesh with 13,000 contracts, and Egypt with 
more than 9,000 contracts. Philippines recorded the same figure of 13,000 
contracts in October, while the number from Bangladesh rose to more than 11,000 
contracts, and Uganda ranked third with about 10,000 contracts.

It is worth noting that "Musaned" platform aims to govern, automate and 
facilitate the procedures of the recruitment of domestic workers and increase 
the level of protection of the rights of all parties by managing the 
contracting process between individuals and the recruitment offices, in 
addition to the management of the relationship between the Saudi recruitment 
offices and the domestic workers offices in the workers exporting countries.

Source: ALSON World