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Expat workers pose a danger to our country
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 03 - 06 - 2016

A GROUP of expatriate workers recently set fire to the buses of the company they work for because the company had not paid them their salaries for three months. The story was in the newspapers. This incident should be an eye-opener for us. We have to realize that the large number of expatriate workers in this country could really be dangerous. No one can deny the contributions expatriate workers have made to our economy and other fields.
However, some of them can pose security threats to this country. In my opinion, such workers are time bombs that could go off at any minute.
Based on personal experience, many expats hate us and are angry because we are a rich country. Why they are angry I do not know. They act as if we stole their money and snatched it from them. The truth is that our resources and money are blessings from Allah Almighty. Some of them go so far as to say that we, Saudis, do not deserve these blessings and the money we have.
That is the reason why some of them become violent when they do not get paid on time. They start to act as if the Kingdom and all Saudis are thieves or criminals. Of course, the newspapers in their countries add fuel to the fire and publish stories about such incidents and blow things out of proportion.
Although this issue might seem to be complicated, it is simple and can be easily resolved. The only way to solve it is for Saudi businessmen to take serious steps to replace expatriate workers with Saudis and invest more in Saudi employees. Employers have to bear the training costs of Saudis and pay them good salaries in order to encourage them to work in the private sector. If we do not take Saudization seriously then nothing will change and the losses might be more costly than we realize.


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