The Primary Commission for the Settlement of Labor Disputes in Jeddah receives on average about 40 cases daily,” said a source at the Jeddah labor office.
The increase in the number of cases came mainly through foreign laborers. Formal statistical analysis uncovered recently that expats amounted to more than 7 million out of a total population of 27 million in Saudi Arabia.
The director of the commission, Asim Fallatah, said that complaints by expats make up 70 percent of the total number of complaints the commission received.
Most labor complaintsare from expatriates
