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Saudi plans to relax foreign workers’ sponsorship terms will benefit Pakistanis — envoy

Kingdom has announced new plans to ease foreign laborers’ contractual restrictions, abolishing a seven-decade-old sponsorship system known as kafala
The plans, to take effect in March 2021, will grant foreign workers the right to change jobs and leave the country without employers’ permission

By SAIMA SHABBIR · 06 November 2020