Hamdi Abdulaziz
The Civil Service Service said that the total number of Bahraini employees working in the “permanent work” system in ministries and government institutions is 35,670 employees, or 99.8% of the total number of employees working in government agencies. While the number of Bahraini employees working in the “temporary work” system is 83 employees in a number of government agencies by 0.2% of the total workers in government agencies, and the largest percentage of them works in the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture, while the number of Bahraini employees working in the “partial work” system in ministries and civil service bodies is 152 employees, and they occupy a number of jobs in various specialties, and they are distributed to a number of entities Government.
In his response to a question to MP Mahmoud Verdun, in which he demanded the provision of accurate data about the numbers of contracting employees in government agencies, whether from Bahrainis or foreigners, the agency, that the role of the agency is centered on taking over the affairs of all civil employees subject to the provisions of Law 48 of 2010 and its amendments. Noting that the legislation organized the recruitment process in government agencies, and all types of employment and their controls in the executive regulations of the Civil Service Law No. 51 of 2012 and their amendments, and that employment with a contract, temporary or partial for non -Bahrainis are based on the request of the competent authority in the government agency and according to the actual need to fill job vacancies in it.
The “Civil Service” pointed out that the number of non -Bahraini employees in the contract system in ministries and government institutions is 5686 employees distributed over various government agencies, and most of them are centered in medical and health sectors, educational sectors and higher education institutions, where they constitute 31.5% of the total employees in the medical and health sector, 59% in the educational sector and higher education institutions and 9.5% in other sectors. The agency added that the number of non -Bahraini employees decreased from 7582 in 2019 to 5686 by 25%, thanks to the provision of government agencies in the Bahraini candidate eligible to fill the jobs operated from non -Bahrainis. Pointing out that contracts range from one to two years, renewable in accordance with civil service regulations and legislation.
