Kuwait Municipality is reportedly preparing to lay off at least 60 percent of expat employees – the latest in an aggressive campaign to cut numbers of foreign residents in the country.
The municipality’s financial and administrative division plans to review expats’ contracts, positions and qualifications with a view to making some of them redundant, in particular those who do not show up to work regularly, fail to do their job duties or hold fake degrees, according to Kuwait Times.
Official sources reportedly claimed that many of the expats had been recruited by ‘wasta’ and enjoyed special privileges their roles do not formally entitle them to.
“This may open the door for terminating around 60 percent of them,” one source was quoted as saying.
