The Ministry of Labor has issued a decision fixing the rate of Saudization in private companies and establishments at 30 percent until June 14, 2010. It also fixed 15 percent for hospitals and polyclinics that have 50 workers or more and 10 percent for those having less than 50 workers. The decision exempted contracting, maintenance, cleaning, operation, tanning and leather work companies. This in addition to ready-mixed concrete, fishery, poultry, bakery, women's and men's textile workshops, carpentry, aluminum, car mechanics and blacksmith workshops, laundries, farms, agricultural and livestock projects, land transportation, heavy truck drivers, trailer truck drivers, fuel stations, pharmacies, optical centers, gold and jewelry factories, limousine drivers, document processing industries, pharmacists working in scientific offices and pharmaceutical companies and engineering offices. Besides these, there are the contracting, maintenance, operation and cleaning companies that have contracts with government in which the rate of Saudization ranges between 5% and 20% according to the kind of each activity.
