Qatarisation plans by the Ministry of Labour should be postponed until a well-trained generation of young Qatari men and women is available, it has been claimed.
That was the message from a seminar on Nationalisation of Jobs which was organised by the Institute for Administrative Development in Doha, local Arabic daily Arrayah reported.
The participants said that until such a cadre of national youth emerged in the job market the policy of Qatarisation of jobs, which aims to get more nationals into the workforce, was nothing but “deadwood employment”.
The gap between the number of expatriates and nationals employed in diverse fields would remain until a strategic plan was chalked out and implemented, delegates at the seminar said.
As many as 20,000 expatriates are employed every year compared to only 2,000 nationals.
The participants called for the setting up of a national body for the development of human resources to address the problem of evolving courses of study required for the job market.
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