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Expatriates could be barred from taking up government jobs for a year especially in the fields of teaching, medicine and engineering – if MPs have their way.
A proposal by Adel Al Asoomi will be debated by MPs during their extraordinary session today.
The veteran MP, who is also Arab Parliament Speaker, said the proposal will see the Civil Service Commission clearing the list of expat employees and filling up the vacancies with qualified Bahrainis.
The ministries of Education, Health, and Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning have told Parliament that they were already prioritising the employment of Bahrainis unless an emergency deemed otherwise.
Meanwhile, MPs will also debate a proposal not to deduct vacation days from Covid-19 frontliners should they exceed, due to work demands, the maximum of 75 days they are ordinarily allowed to accumulate.
However, if the government found it difficult to implement this, MPs have suggested that financial compensation be paid for extra days worked.
The Civil Service Commission told MPs in writing that additional days were untouched for frontliners and would be divided over two years.
Parliament will also debate a proposal for a new ‘smart silk city’ that would attract major investments from the world’s biggest economies, including China, to Bahrain.
Parliament Speaker Fouzia Zainal, who is spearheading the proposal, said it will enhance trade ties between Bahrain and China and provide more job opportunities to citizens.
In 2018, Bahrain signed an agreement with China to join the Belt and Road Initiative, a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government to invest in nearly 70 countries and international organisations.
The project was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013.
MPs will also vote on a proposal to study offering 30 per cent of shares in companies the government owns 50pc or more shares in to its Bahraini employees.
MPs will also vote on the following proposals:
Opening a vehicle inspection unit in Hamad Town;
Making available face, eye and hand scans across all of Bahrain’s entry and exit points (Interior Ministry said the proposal matches its future plans currently being tested with a German company).
Doubling Tamkeen’s financial support to farmers to expand their cattle yards and poultry farms and increase production.
Opening the Isa Town Health Centre round-the-clock.
Dropping remaining government housing payments on the family of a deceased breadwinner.
Forming a new shrimps aquaculture company in partnership between the government and the private sector.
Carrying out necessary repairs and modifications to the Naim Youth Centre pitch.
Establishing a new local motor sports city, named Salman Motor Sports City, inside the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir or on surrounding land.
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