Posted on 05/09/2016 10:01:22 AM PDT by bananaman22
Saudi construction giant Binladin group has laid off tens of thousands of workers, leading to rare protests, as workers torch seven buses demanding compensation as low oil prices begin to bite in earnest.
The numbers of layoffs range from 50,000 to 77,000, many of who say they were not paid for several months.
Binladin group, which last year had all of its contracts frozen after a crane fell over the Grand Mosque in Mecca, killing 107, denied that it owed its workers any compensation. The company said the layoffs were a “routine” adjustment to a slowdown in construction activity in the country.
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I'm surprised they didn't deny they ever had any workers.
I would have expected them to say they never hired anyone, and all work was accomplished by the will of Allah alone.
all those Indonesians, Singaporese and Filipinos are going to carry sharia back home.
Don’t make fun of the unemployed until you know its devastating effect on the victims. Houston is very hard hit and if you played that violin publicly in a job fair, you would not come out alive.
I wasn’t referring to the employees. I was referring to that family.
At least no Saudis will lose their “jobs.” What do Saudis do, anyway?
Saudis watch while others work.
HaHaHa. Eat sand...
Empty out the plane's liquor once they leave Saudi Airspace, and head straight for the Nudie bar once the plane lands in a non-Islamic country.
Right after they have a babi kecap and a beer, served by a woman whose dress contains less square footage of cloth than a Saudi woman’s headscarf.
“Saudis . . . doing the jobs Yemini’s won’t do for themselves” I guess.
Gotta be foreigners.
Could possibly add to the problems there where 60% of young men sympathise with or otherwise support ISIS, maybe.
I remember after the collapse in 2007/2008 there were pictures of abandoned cars at some airport in Saudi Arabia; a lot of the Indians that had been laid off walked away from their homes (and car payments) and flew home.
Over the last 50 years, the Saudi Royals have squeezed the world, sometimes hard for the oil under their sand. They have sponsored terror and grown fat on their profits. I hope the masses over thrown the country and plunder the royals till they are penny-less.
I’m forecasting a bear market in towel heads.
Their new best customer is China.
Those friendly folks with mafia business practices and 1.4 billion expendable people to enforce them.
Thank God for fracking on US soil.
—What do Saudis do, anyway?—I have only witnessed what I see here, and I see their young sons drive around in new Mustangs and lifted American pickups.
OH, you mean for work...
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