JEDDAH — The Ministry of Labor has issued a directive allowing business to transfer their expatriate employees between different entities and the directive will go into effect in three months' times. The transfer should be in accordance with the Nitaqat rules and regulations, which allow such transfers to take place if the expatriate employee has spent at least two years in an entity. However, this requirement is not necessary if the entity itself was dissolved, in which case the employees may be transferred to other entities.
