Gudaibia Palace: The Kingdom of Bahrain has maintained the unemployment rate well below 4% last year with an average unemployment of 3.7% at end of the 2014.
Addressing a post Cabinet Press briefing, the Labour Minister Jamil Humaidan told the reporters that there would be emphasis to further reduce the unemployment rate in 2015 through various training and incentive schemes.
Earlier, the Prime Minister also directed the Labour Ministry to adopt more initiatives that encourage the private sector to attract qualified national competencies, particularly women, urging more cooperation with the private sector to remove all obstacles hindering women’s integration in the labour market.
The Minister explained the rationale behind the job creation for the nationals and said there were almost 4000 jobs were available with the national job bank.
“We will make jobs available for Bahrainis in various sectors by working closely with the other entities,” the Minister said.
HRH Premier called for the need to continue efforts to maintain unemployment rates at their lower levels, as indicated in the labour market’s indicators for the last quarter of 2014, praising the role played by the Labour Minister and the Labour Ministry’s affiliates in this regard.
The Labour Minister presented a memo on the labour market’s indices, and the Labour Ministry was instructed to coordinate and cooperate with the competent official sides to study the situation of qualified national job-seekers whose disciplines are not required by the labour market in order to train and rehabilitate them and employ them in jobs that appeal to them.