RIYADH — Chairman of the Management and Human Resources Committee in the Shoura Council Muhammad Hamid Al-Nagadi said the higher authorities referred to the council a study on reducing working hours in the private sector. He said the committee was currently studying a proposal in this regard by a meeting of those concerned with the matter. The committee will discuss the findings of the study in upcoming sessions of the council. Informed sources in the Ministry of Labor disclosed that the proposal included a study to reduce the weekly working hours from 48 to 40, or eight hours a day in a five-day work week. The aim of the proposal was to narrow the gap between working hours in the private and public sectors in order to expedite Saudization of jobs in the private sector.
