Saudi Arabia recruited 33% more foreign construction workers in 2012
The Saudi labour ministry has said the number of work visas issued to the country’s construction sector accounted for 58% of the total work visas issued by the ministry last year, Arab News has reported. In 2012, the ministry issued nearly 1.6 million work visas, of which 900,000 were allocated to the building and construction sector, it said.
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