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UAE to train workers in India
Unskilled foreign workers looking for jobs in the UAE will now be required to pay Dh6,000 to learn skills in their home countries before coming here, a senior government official told Gulf News
- By Shehab Al Makahleh, Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:00 February 21, 2012
Abu Dhabi Unskilled foreign workers looking for jobs in the UAE will now be required to pay Dh6,000 to learn skills in their home countries before coming here, a senior government official told Gulf News.
The UAE's Federal Demographic Council (FDC) said the UAE would set up training centres in India starting in 2013 in an effort to control the flow of unskilled workers into the UAE's construction industry, according to Saeed Abdullah, the National Productivity Improvement Programme manager at the FDC.
While the workers will have to bear the cost of the training, they will no longer have to pay huge amounts to recruitment agencies or private travel agents to get jobs. Pakistan and Bangladesh will also eventually have training centres. Industry representatives said that the new rule would result in companies being forced to raise wages to cover the cost.
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