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This article is regularly reviewed by Wego’s editorial team to ensure the content is up-to-date and accurate. Updated July 2024 Bahrain has a favorable business environment with unrestricted full foreign ownership in free trade zones and no corporate, personal, wealth or capital gains taxes. This liberal environment has helped make Bahrain one of the fastest growing economies in the world, resulting in abundant employment opportunities. Anyone hoping to live and work in Bahrain must first understand how to obtain a Bahrain work visa and residence permit. Wego has compiled all the information you need to get a Bahrain work visa…
Bahrain’s 2022 parliamentary elections, held in November, were neither free nor fair. All members of dissolved political parties were barred from standing in elections. Authorities also attempted to restrict former opposition members from participating in civil society organizations. Independent media has been banned since 2017. Twenty-six Bahrainis remain on death row, including at least eight who were convicted and sentenced in manifestly unfair trials that were based primarily, or in some cases entirely, on coerced confessions. Prominent opposition leaders and human rights defenders, including Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and Abdeljalil Al-Singaseh, remained imprisoned without adequate medical care, and authorities failed to hold…
MANAMA, Bahrain, Jan. 11, 2023 /CNW/ — City Bahrain celebrated the first anniversary of its Global Technology Hub, which plans to employ 1,000 Bahraini programmers over 10 years. Currently, the Hub is made up of 110 Bahraini employees, of which 91 Bahrainis have started working at City Seef’s facility, with another 19 due to join soon. Female participants in the Hub make up 22% of the total Bahraini workforce, higher than the average female representation in other City Tech Hubs around the world. Bahrain’s Citi Global Tech Hub celebrates its first anniversary (PRNewsfoto/Bahrain EDB) When selecting countries for its Global…
Bahrain’s Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) has officially launched a new “Work Registration Programme” effective December 4, 2022, as part of the country’s recent labour reforms. According to the LMRA, the new initiative will replace the controversial Flexi Permit programme, which was discontinued at the end of October this year. The LMRA appoints licensed private companies as labor registration centers where migrant workers can apply for “occupational work permits.” The centers must electronically register and regularly update workers’ data, including personal information, bank account details, and authorized occupational activities. The data is then sent to the LMRA for approval. A…
Tamkeen is committed to empowering Bahrain’s workforce and enabling the private sector to become the main driver of the country’s economic growth. (Photo: EDB Bahrain) In January 2022, Bahrain’s labour fund Tamkeen announced a new strategic direction to drive economic diversification and dynamism. Interim CEO Maha Mofees explains how new programs and partnerships will create more attractive job opportunities for Bahrainis and empower local and international businesses in Bahrain to realize their full growth potential. Since its establishment over 15 years ago, Labour Fund Tamkeen has been empowering Bahrainis to drive the country’s economic growth by helping local talent become…
president,Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone With four decades of experience, Captain Sandeep Mehta is one of the leading captains in the Indian shipping industry. During his tenure, Captain Mehta has acquired immense expertise in various aspects of port management, shipping, logistics and infrastructure operations. Capt. Mehta’s responsibilities span supply chain and international logistics, bulk and container port operations, global liner shipping and port infrastructure development and management. Starting his career as a seaman, Captain Mehta quickly rose through the ranks to become Captain, in command of some of the largest ships in the merchant fleet at that time. After…
This comes a month after it was declared that flexi-permits, which allowed people to work in freelance roles with multiple employers, would be scrapped. read more… From the Web Desk Published date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 3:55 PM Last updated: Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 4:19 p.m. Bahrain has introduced new work permit cards for foreigners, according to local media. The decision was announced at a press conference on Monday, Bahrain News Agency reported. It was also announced that worker registration centres would be set up across the country and eligible residents could apply for permits at these centres. The decision…
Bahrain’s Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) has officially launched the third and final phase of the Wage Protection Scheme (WPS). The third phase, which came into effect on January 1, 2022, covers businesses with up to 49 employees. These small and medium-sized enterprises employ the majority of Bahrain’s migrant workers, and the latest LMRA data shows that 98% of the country’s active businesses have 49 employees or fewer. Employers will be given a six-month grace period to implement the WPS regulations. Domestic workers and flexi-permit holders are not included in the scheme. Bahrain’s WPS is set out in a series…
Bahraini activists commemorated the 10th anniversary of the 2011 Bahrain uprising amid continued severe repression. Since 2017, Bahraini authorities have banned all independent media in the country and disbanded all major opposition groups. They have failed to hold officials accountable for torture and ill-treatment. No monitoring mechanism is independent of the government. Three inmates died in Bahraini prisons in 2021 due to suspected medical malpractice. Sanitation conditions remain dire in Bahrain’s overcrowded prisons, which have experienced two major COVID-19 outbreaks. Prison authorities violently suppressed a peaceful sit-in at Jau Prison, and security forces summoned for questioning and arrested individuals who…
Meshal Abdulaziz Al-Khowaiter, a PhD student in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics (LSE), is focusing on Bahrain as a case study, investigating how equalizing labor market mobility can reduce the wage gap between local and migrant workers. Earlier this month, I wrote that imposing a universal minimum wage on all private sector workers in Saudi Arabia, regardless of nationality, would be an important policy measure to close the cost gap between nationals and foreign workers. In this article, I argue that equalizing labor market mobility for all workers would indirectly reduce the large wage gap…