Employment in Iraq {multinational}

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Baghdad: Omar Abdul Latif

Official and union bodies have acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of “multinational” workers have invaded the country, while millions of Iraqis are suffering from poverty, unemployment, and lack of any hope of improving conditions, and the latest wave of expatriate workers coming from Lebanon, against the backdrop of The crisis and bankruptcy that the Lebanese state has been subjected to recently.
The head of the General Federation of Trade Unions, Walid Nehme, said in an interview: "Iraq has become a country that attracts (multinational) workers from Indians, Bengalis, Africans, Egyptians, Syrians, and finally from the Lebanese, while unemployment is rising among its children, whether they are graduates or otherwise."
He added that "the majority of the workers of the oil companies are of other nationalities, while the people of the country are appointed at the lowest prices, and he refused to appoint the rest."
As for the member of the executive office of the union, Intisar Jabbar, she indicated that "job opportunities will be less than they are now by adding new workers to Iraq."
And she said in an interview: “Iraq suffers from high unemployment rates, which in a number of governorates reach more than 60%,” noting that “the private sector is also suffering from the violation of laws by employers and forcing the worker to be present for 12 hours in exchange for Low wages and no overtime wages.”
And she indicated that "the Lebanese workers who came to Iraq will be forced to work at any wage in the shops in exchange for providing a living for them and their families, while the fate of the Iraqi worker will be in jeopardy in this situation and can be expelled with ease."
Jabbar blamed the state in general because its decisions are made without prior planning, and without any concern for the fate of Iraqi youth or graduates who are trying to get a job opportunity to no avail.
For his part, the head of the General Labor Union in Lebanon, Bechara Al-Asmar, expected an increase in Lebanese expatriate workers in Iraq during the next stage.
Al-Asmar said: "Iraq has received Lebanese technicians, engineers, technicians and businessmen during the last stage," noting that "they take their rights in Iraq to the fullest."
Al-Asmar expected "the increase in the number of Lebanese workers who will come to Iraq and spread in the capital and other governorates to work," stressing that "Iraq granted many facilities to these workers, which motivated them to come to it without other countries."
There are currently in Iraq more than 410 Lebanese companies working in various fields such as education, construction and tourism sectors such as restaurants and hotels, while in the Kurdistan region, there are more than 500 companies, especially in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, according to the Lebanese ambassador to Iraq Ali Ali
 Habab.

  Editing: Muhammad Al-Ansari
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