The Saudi Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, Engineer Ahmed bin Sulaiman Al-Rajhi, issued a decision amending the flexible work organization issued by Ministerial Resolution No. (146481) dated 9/7/1441 AH.
The ministerial decision stipulated amending Article 27 of the executive regulations of the labor system to develop flexible work regulation. This comes as part of the ministry’s ongoing efforts to review labor market regulations, support the stability and growth of establishments, preserve workers’ rights, and increase the attractiveness and flexibility of the labor market.
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development affirmed its keenness, through organizing flexible work, to create job opportunities for job seekers, and to provide jobs for workers who wish to increase their income, through a flexible contractual organization in which the wage is based on the hour. It also worked to preserve the rights of both parties, and raise the rate of safety and credibility. By launching the flexible work platform to document employment contracts electronically.
Flexible work organization offers attractive advantages for establishments and individuals, including: increasing the readiness of job seekers to enter the labor market, enabling them to practice the necessary professional skills, and reducing recruitment costs, as the number of workers benefiting from the flexible work pattern has exceeded more than 35 thousand workers since its launch.
The Ministry explained that the new amendments included amendments to Clause (Second) of (Article Twenty-Seven), the most important of which was raising the number of working hours for a flexible worker to 160 hours per month at one facility. The amendments also included calculating a full point for the facility in Nitaqat upon completion of a total of 160 hours. Flexible hours of work performed for a worker or group of workers.