{"id":2559,"date":"2016-03-23T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/2559-saudi-arabia-to-fire-35-000-yemenis-from-mobile-sector-jobs\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T09:33:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:33:30","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-fire-35-000-yemenis-from-mobile-sector-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/2559-saudi-arabia-to-fire-35-000-yemenis-from-mobile-sector-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to fire 35,000 Yemenis from mobile sector jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 15.808px;\">Saudi Arabia will be firing some 35,000 Yemenis working in the country\u2019s mobile phone sector<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Saudi Arabia will be firing some 35,000 Yemenis working in the country\u2019s mobile phone sector, in a \u201cSaudization\u201d plan that is apparently aimed at easing the country\u2019s economic difficulties caused in large part by a deadly war on Yemen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to Yemeni media reports on Tuesday, 35,000 Yemenis who are working in the field of mobile phone trade and maintenance will go unemployed following the Saudi decision of restricting working in this sector to Saudis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The reports further said that the Yemenis, who financially support over 100,000 families in Yemen, have only three months to quit their jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Yemen\u2019s media also published an appeal letter by thousands of Yemeni employees who urge the Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to help them, asking to be excluded from the decision due to the critical condition and war in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The news comes as Saudi Arabia\u2019s cash-strapped government launched fresh austerity measures and ordered ministries to cut contract spending by at least five percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The kingdom is facing a budget deficit of nearly $100 billion caused by a sharp slump in oil prices as well as Riyadh\u2019s rising army expenditure, a large amount of which is being funneled into a military campaign against Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia will be firing some 35,000 Yemenis working in the country\u2019s mobile phone sector \u00a0 Saudi Arabia will be firing some 35,000 Yemenis working in the country\u2019s mobile phone sector, in a \u201cSaudization\u201d plan that is apparently aimed at easing the country\u2019s economic difficulties caused in large part by a deadly war on Yemen. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38,68],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-yemen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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