Today (Tuesday), the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development issued the procedural guide for the decision to localize a number of economic activities and professions in the Medina region, which aims to increase the participation of citizens in the labor market in the Medina region.
The rates of localization of professions in Medina will vary from 40% to 100% Below are all the details of the procedural guide for the decision to locate professions and activities in Medina:
endemic activities of 40%
Localization will be applied at a rate of 40% to workers in serviced restaurants, banquet canteens, fast food outlets, juice shops in stand-alone or mixed buildings, closed complexes and shopping centres, with the exception of excluded professions, and the percentage will be to be applied if there are 4 or more workers on a shift within the store.
localized activities by 50%
Includes workers serving drinks in cafes, ice cream parlors, and ice cream in self-contained or mixed buildings, complexes and enclosed shopping centres, except for excluded occupations, and the percentage will apply if there are two or more workers on a shift within of the outlet.
The localization will also be applied at a rate of 50% to workers in the wholesale trade of food and beverage products, with the exception of excluded professions, such as cleaners and transport and unloading workers, provided that their percentage does not exceed 20% of the workers in the store in a shift, and if the number of workers in a shift is less than 3 Only one worker is added in one of the excluded professions, while respecting the uniform.
Activities excluded from the regulation of restaurant and bar activities
This includes canteens, food processing and preparation contractors or caterers, caterers, cafeterias and cafeterias in factories, offices, hospitals and schools, restaurants and cafes within hotels, hotel apartments and villas.
Autochthonous professions and their percentage
Marketing specialist and sales representative: Emiratisation rate is 40%
Accounting fund clerk: Emiratization rate is 100%, except for excluded activities, which include car maintenance, refueling, bottled gas, restaurants, cafes, all kinds of workshops and nurseries, except of points of sale whose surface area is less than 300 m2.
The guide confirmed that this decision applies to all private sector establishments operating in the Medina region, according to the codes of professions and activities specified for them.
Things to consider when calculating location rates
The procedural guide specified several issues that need to be taken into account when applying the decision to nationalized activities and professions, including that the decision should not conflict with location rates in other decisions applying to the number total number of workers in the plant according to the Nitaqat program.
Also, when calculating the number of Saudi workers out of total workers in the store, rounding to the units should be done from 0.49 or less, which is close to zero, and from 0.5 and above, rounded to 1 The number of Saudi workers should be calculated after subtracting workers in excluded professions.
The guide explained the equation for calculating the number of Saudi workers, which will be calculated by subtracting the number of workers in the outlet from the number of workers in the excluded professions by multiplying the percentage of Saudization imposed, and this is applied to each outlet in targeted activities.
debugging timeout
By correction period we mean the period between the date of issue of the ministerial provision and the start of the application of the quotients during which the institution can work on what allows it to reach the location quotients to achieve its goal . The sanctions provided for in this guide and the legal sanctions will be applied after the expiry of the correction period to all establishments that do not comply with the emiratization percentage.
The Ministry has granted a correction period of 180 days in the activities and professions subject to emiratization, starting from the date of 7/6/1444 AH, and the rates of emiratization will be applied on 20/12/1444 AH.
The uniform for exempt professions
The procedural guide emphasized adherence to a uniform uniform for workers in excluded professions, including both male and female workers, provided that the worker’s profession is written behind the uniform, with emphasis on compliance with Ministerial Resolution No. 164091 of 11/14/1441 AH relating to the regulation of workers’ uniforms.
Mechanism for the implementation of sanctions and legal procedures
In the event that the establishment does not comply with the required percentage of emiratization, the Ministry will take all necessary measures to ensure that the establishments comply with the implementation of this decision and sanctions will be applied against establishments that violate the provisions of this decision according to the calendar of violations and sanctions issued by ministerial resolution no. (92768) of 5/5/1443 AH, taking into account any changes to this decision, and the Ministry will take all other necessary measures to ensure the implementation of the ministerial decision.
Support, employment and financing programmes
The procedural guide indicated that the provision and implementation of support and employment programs takes place through the Human Resources Development Fund “Goal”, and the Social Development Bank provides support to young men and women who have the desire and an ambition to practice self-employment and pave the way for success towards self-employment, while the bank provides a number of funding programs that will support young people’s entry into business, explaining these programs on The bank’s website.
Further clarifications for the implementation of the decision
The procedural guidance confirmed that the emiratization decision applies to workers within the plant, as well as the sanctions provided by law, regardless of the scope of the plant in Nitaqat, which means that the scope of the plant in Nitaqat does not affect on the calculation of the percentage of emiratization, and the decision also applies to the name of the national classification of economic activities and the actual activity of establishments.
The guide stressed that it is necessary for a Saudi to be counted in the Emiratisation reports who is registered in the insurance on behalf of the establishment or has a documented flexible employment contract or is in possession of a self-employment document.
He pointed out that Saudi workers who have an obligation to be present at the port and who have a contractual relationship with their employer to perform work primarily for wages, their contracts can be in any pattern of work (full – partial – flexible “hourly work”) according to the specified conditions, and it is also required that Saudi Arabia work in the outlet according to the percentages specified in the decision, regardless of the form of the contract.
The guide also underlined that it is possible for the worker to be present in the port with a flexible work contract “work by the hour”, provided that the worker present in the port with a valid flexible work contract is calculated for a worker , provided that the contract is concluded and documented via the flexible working platform.
