Recruitment offices throughout the Kingdom have complained to the Ministry of Labor about the regulation for recruitment companies, sources said. The regulation mainly serves the large recruitment companies, and creates financial concerns for small recruitment offices that want to merge into big firms, sources said. The Ministry of Labor is studying the objections and has not responded to them, sources said. Discussions about establishing the new recruiting companies are going on throughout the Kingdom, which recruits 20,000 domestic workers per month, and within the next three months, the firms should be prepared to carry out their work, sources said. These new recruitment companies would be launched at the beginning of next year; a large number of recruitment offices have started merging to establish the large firms for recruitment of trained domestic workers. The establishment of five mega companies has been announced in the wake of 300 recruitment offices announcing that they would provide SR500 million for the efforts. The plans were established through a number of meetings at the chambers of commerce and industry, and the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce. The regulation has specified a six-month period for establishing the companies or the door would be opened for other investors who, sources said, could get large stakes in them. __
