Saudis who came to work in different fields. According to the report, Saudi labor authorities have enacted excellent work laws and regulations to enable the foreign workers and personnel to fulfill their jobs in comfort, citing a number of control mechanisms to protect workers, particularly housemaids, private drivers and governesses. The regulations guarantee their rights in health insurance, fair payment and vacation enjoying, Al-Aiban's report said. It said Saudi Arabia has concluded bilateral agreements in this regard with labor-supplying countries to guarantee labors' rights. Al-Aiban cited Saudi Arabia's labor law as banning religious segregation and working under direct sun rays in summer. Despite some challenges related to luring Saudi youths from the two sexes to join the labor market, the last recent years have witnessed the adoption of a number of governmental and non-governmental initiatives aiming at creating job opportunities for the two sexes, the report said, citing the wages support program, distance work, part-time work, and productive families subsidy program. In the field of housing, the Kingdom has issued a number of decisions and regulations, including the SR1.5b. support for housing projects, the accreditation of 500,000 residential units in the amount of SR250b and subsidizing the real estate development fund with SR40b. In the health field, funds allocated in the state budget for the health sector were considerably increased, enabling the Ministry of Health to open more primary health care centers, establish a number of medical state-of-the-art cities and referential and specialized hospitals and provide support for the private health sector. --More 21:59 LOCAL TIME 18:59 GMT تغريد
