Businesspeople's views on the sponsorship system

[qatarperegrine]

The Peninsula has a nice article today on views of the sponsorship & exit laws among businesspeople in Qatar: Exit permit stirs fiery debate in business circles.

Nasser Sulaiman Hyder feels the sponsorship system is akin to slavery and if it is altered giving the freedom to a foreign worker to change jobs, it would stabilise the labour situation in the country and help those companies which suffer from lack of good professionals and skilled manpower.

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He finds it difficult to digest why a company cannot allow a good worker or a professional, an engineer, for instance, to join another company if he has served it sincerely during the contractual period.

The company should either raise the salary of the worker or he should have the right to take up another job once his contractual period has ended. How can a company force a worker to continue working with it or if he wants to take up another job, why he has to leave the country for good, wonders Hyder.

It's nice to hear that not all businesspeople want to keep the laws that give them undue power over their employees.

Comments

Re: NOC Issue

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I am very sorry that I don't know how to help. I don't know how you can go about getting a No-Objection letter.

If you haven't talked to the NHRC, that'd be a good place to start. They can advise you of your rights.