An international website has highlighted the rise in unemployment in Saudi Arabia, saying that Saudi officials are spreading false propaganda about the localization of jobs.
The international website Stars & Strip reported that Saudi officials were spreading lies about the localization of jobs in order to show a reduction in the unemployment rate.
The site stressed that the unemployment rate in Saudi Arabia is still high, while Saudi officials claim to have provided thousands of job opportunities, especially for women.
According to the website, many jobs for Saudi women in Saudi Arabia are very low-wage, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s propaganda to increase job opportunities for Saudi women is deceptive.
The website went on to write: When Saudi officials talk about localizing jobs to provide job opportunities for Saudi women, they are talking about jobs that were previously done by Asian migrant workers and other Arab and African countries.
False advertising of job opportunities in the 2030 perspective
Following criticism from many Saudi youth, Saudi officials have promoted job creation and reduced unemployment in the light of the 2030 vision.
Recently, Turki al-Ja’wini, director general of the Saudi Human Resources Development Fund (Target), claimed that the employment of 25,000 young Saudi men and women had been supported.
Over the past few weeks, many Twitter users have launched an online campaign to express outrage at the continuing high unemployment rate and the rising number of unemployed in Saudi Arabia.
Twitter users launched a hashtag in Saudi Arabia to condemn a Saudi newspaper that claimed that unemployment was falling in Saudi Arabia. They showed that the unemployment rate, poverty is rising and the living conditions of the Saudis are deteriorating.
Record the unemployment rate in Saudi Arabia
It is worth noting that the Saudi newspaper Al-Eqtesadiya reported that the unemployment rate in Saudi Arabia will decrease by the end of the fourth quarter of 2020.
According to the newspaper, the unemployment rate among Saudi citizens and residents decreased to 7.4% in the fourth quarter of last year, and the average unemployment rate for Saudi citizens reached 12.6% in the fourth quarter of last year (compared to the third quarter of last year). 14.9%) had a clear decrease. Saudi Arabia’s female unemployment rate also fell from 30.2 percent in the previous quarter to 24.4 percent.
Many Twitter users denied claims by Saudi officials that unemployment was falling, calling Mohammed bin Salman’s policies shaky.
Despite the “economic reforms” that began more than two years ago, and as the Saudi Crown Prince proclaimed his vision, job opportunities or the development of other non-oil industries have not been very successful.
The Saudi government took various measures to reduce the foreign labor force, including the localization of jobs and the use of the Saudis in various sectors of the economy, and decided to develop “Saudiization of the economy” as one of the pillars of the 2030 vision.