Manpower ministry extends ban on work permits for some jobs

Oman's Ministry of Manpower has been extended ban on some jobs for expats according to TimesofOman.

Affected professions are those of purchase and sales representatives, and workers for construction, cleaning, and workshops, meaning that companies  will never again have the capacity to get allows with the end goal to utilize individuals for this employments.

As indicated by the Ministry of Manpower's choice number 487 of the year 2018, "Grants for non-Omani labor will stop to be discharged for the following a half year for the accompanying callings: Sales Representative/Promoter, Purchase Representative. Grants for substitutions for existing workers will keep on being discharged." 

This law will apply to every single private foundation, supplanting the prior choice. At long last, this law will apply beginning from the 30th of November." 

Article 1 of the choice likewise stated: "The time of suspension of the allow to bring the non-Omani work drive incidentally in the foundations of the private area working in the development and cleaning works indicated in Ministerial Decision 122/2014, will proceed for a time of a half year beginning from December 1, 2018." 

"The time of suspension of the permit to bring the non-Omani manpower in private sector establishments operating in sectors specified in Ministerial Decision No. 122/2014 shall continue for a further period of 6 months beginning on January 2, 2019," the decision of Manpower Ministry added.

According to Ministerial Decision No. 122/2014, the occupations are among the workshops of carpentry, aluminum, blacksmithing and brick factories.