[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Women in Workplace Challenging Society

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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:17:12 +0100
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      Women in Workplace Challenging Society
      Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News 
       
     
      JEDDAH, 17 November 2005 - Many people express confusion over Ministry of 
Labor efforts to get more women into the workplace that seem to advance and 
retreat like the tides of the Red Sea.

      The ministry recently banned night shifts for women at all businesses 
except health care facilities and plans to enforce it with SR500-SR1,000 fines 
and threats of closure.

      That regulation was on the books long before Labor Minister Dr. Ghazi 
Al-Gosaibi cited it in August. "The decision was not meant to change women's 
work situations but rather to create a more suitable work environment," Dr. 
Al-Gosaibi said.

      Nine working conditions were put in place, the most controversial being 
the nightshift ban.

      "Women should not work between sunset and sunrise - for a period of not 
less than 11 hours," Dr. Al-Gosaibi said, quoting Article 161 of the Saudi 
Labor Law. The ministry justified the application of the old rule as it was a 
condition of an article of the International Labor Organization with which the 
Kingdom ratified a treaty.

      That rule contradicts a directive issued in June by the Ministry of 
Labor, which concerns employing Saudi women in shops selling women's goods. 
Shops in Saudi Arabia typically are open for two shifts. Night shifts normally 
last until 10 p.m. but often are extended to midnight in the summer. In 
Ramadan, night shifts end about 3 a.m. Therefore, applying the regulation would 
disrupt the Kingdom's normal shopping patterns.

      Whether shopping hours or regulations change, it is clear that Saudi 
women entering the workplace will prompt both people and officials to revisit 
longtime societal precepts and forge a new vision for the future - if women are 
to play an important role in the creation of a new, vibrant economy in the 
Kingdom.
     


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