A proposal to bolster Bahrain’s National Employment Programme by increasing wage support to 100 per cent and introducing new mechanisms to ensure job stability has sparked debate among legislators.
The proposal by Parliament’s financial and economic affairs committee vice-chairman Mohammed Al Marafi, submitted formally to Parliament yesterday, calls on the government to develop the current programme administered by the Labour Fund (Tamkeen) by fully covering employees’ salaries during the support period, and ensuring workers’ long-term retention after the support ends .
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