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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 8486399" data-attributes="member: 92282">Saudi agencies want total ban on LankansThe Saudi Chamber of Commerce and Industry and  the Kingdom’s National Recruitment Committee have asked their government  to impose a total ban on recruitment of workers from Sri Lanka.                      The decision was taken by the two bodies at a meeting in Kassam, a suburb of Riyadh.                                                The Sunday Times  reported last week that Saudi Arabia, which imposed a temporary ban on  the recruitment of Sri Lankan workers was last Sunday expected to decide  whether to continue it.                        Association of Licensed Foreign Employment  Agencies (ALFEA) Secretary Faizer Mackeen who confirmed the outcome of  the meeting in Kassam, told the Sunday Times the two bodies have called  upon their government to recruit workers from countries like Cambodia,  Vietnam and Nepal to meet any shortfall of labour requirements when  recruitment from Sri Lanka is banned.                                                Foreign Employment  Bureau Chairman Kingsley Ranawaka told the Sunday Times “we are yet to  receive any official word on the proposed ban.” He said the Government  would respond when only officially informed. A spokesman for the Saudi  Embassy in Colombo declined to comment. “We cannot say anything,” he  said.                                                At present there are  more than 500,000 Sri Lankans employed in Saudi Arabia. Most of them are  housemaids.                         The problem has been compounded by another  development. Last year, 43,000 Sri Lankan housemaids took up jobs in  Saudi Arabia.                       ALFEA officials say 19,000 of them breached  their contracts and returned after working only two to three months.  This is the latest issue that has caused concern among the two Saudi  bodies which made the recommendation to their government. Earlier, the  allegation of domestic aide A.K. Ariyawathie who complained her employer  injected needles into her body and a dispute between the Bureau and the  Saudi National Recruitment Committee over the minimum fee charged as  commission from would-be employees had set off the crisis.<a href="http://www.sundaytimes.lk/101017/News/nws_02.html" target="_blank">ST</a><img src="http://sundaytimes.lk/101017/images/News_cartoon.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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