Kuwait’s state departments have been asked to lay off “unnecessary” expats by the end of the year, the Kuwait Times has reported.
The move is one of many attempts to decrease the number of expats in the country, who make up 70 percent of the
population.
The newspaper quoted government sources as saying the Cabinet also instructed governmental bodies to freeze the recruitment of expats with the exception of certain vital sectors such as doctors and teachers.
The government has denied it is planning to cut the number of expats despite announcing in 2013 that the number of foreign workers would be cut by 100,000 annually for a decade.
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