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Dear Sir,
I would like to express my thanks to Gulf Times for its regular updates on the proposed changes in Qatar’s sponsorship rules. That is why I have to disagree with the remarks of MH in his letter “Right time for rule changes” (Gulf Times, January 25) that “it is more than eight months since the announcement was made” and
“there have been no reports about any concrete progress in this regard”.
After the initial report on the Qatar government’s plan to make changes to the labour laws in May last year, Gulf Times has published regular updates on the development, which I have been following keenly.
Let me give at least three examples. There were reports about this on May 5, 2014, page 1; September 6, 2014, page 1; and December 28, 2014, page 24. Maybe there have been more. So it is not true to say that there have not been any reports about the labour rule changes after the first announcement.
Incidentally, I also firmly believe that the proposed changes in the laws, as published, will benefit both the employer and the employee. I am sure that it will be a vast improvement upon the present rules.
Aslam Ali
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