The Control and Investigation Board (CIB) will start checking the results of the measures taken by government bodies to implement Royal orders to find urgent solutions to the increasing unemployment problem, sources said. The results will be submitted to the King. The CIB will follow up ministries' plans and time frames for employing fresh graduates as well as their plans to deal with more graduates during the next few years, the sources added. The CIB will also examine the number of vacancies. While officials work to reduce the unemployment rate, Minister of Labor Adel Fakieh said that Royal approval is expected for procedures to prevent people from inappropriately collecting the unemployment allowance. Meanwhile, a government committee is discussing the means to implement the decision to set a minimum wage for private school teachers at SR5,000 plus a SR600 transport allowance. The committee comprises members from the Ministry of Education and the Human Resources Development Fund. Naser Al-Haqbani, the Ministry of Education's Director General for Private Education, said that until the decision is implemented, the 24,000 male and female teachers at private schools will start the academic year according to their previous contracts. They will sign new contracts when the decision to revise their pay scale is implemented, he said. __
