Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
Apr 22nd 2013, 5:34 pm
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Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
Excellent news for all those partial to a Bahrain brunch on a Friday....I always felt being awake, in work and in Saudi on a Saturday was totally wrong....
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/saudi...at-499082.html
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/saudi...at-499082.html
Apr 22nd 2013, 6:52 pm
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Re: Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
interesting , have to see when / if it happens how it works out .
Apr 22nd 2013, 6:55 pm
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Re: Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
Only a RECOMMENDATION from the Shoura Council. Will King Abdullah consent ?
Apr 23rd 2013, 5:12 am
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Re: Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
And only for government workers. Private company employees are not being considered under this particular recommendation.
Apr 23rd 2013, 7:37 am
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Re: Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
Now they've issued a denial.
The council has since clarified its decision. It will only review a study by the Ministry of Civil Service (MCS) that recommended changing the weekend to bring the kingdom into line with the GCC and closer to the same weekend as the rest of the world.
The council has since clarified its decision. It will only review a study by the Ministry of Civil Service (MCS) that recommended changing the weekend to bring the kingdom into line with the GCC and closer to the same weekend as the rest of the world.
Apr 23rd 2013, 7:43 am
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Re: Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
The religious establishment is opposed. They see it as an "innovation".
Apr 23rd 2013, 1:15 pm
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Re: Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
shucks - Oman is doing it why can't they?
Apr 23rd 2013, 3:47 pm
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Re: Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
yeah
Apr 23rd 2013, 4:22 pm
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Re: Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
Makes no bloody difference if you're working in construction - I only ever got friday off in 21 years of working in the Gulf.
Apr 30th 2013, 6:10 am
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Re: Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
Winds of change could be blowing - Savola Group (huge 13.5K employees) 9th ranked company in KSA announced to their shareholders they are considering the change starting 2nd half 2013.
We all know things happen slowly in the sand, I was last here 10 years ago - vehicle plates were only in Arabic - sometime in the last 10 years they changed to Arabic and English.
Hope that maybe next year or the year after or.....
We all know things happen slowly in the sand, I was last here 10 years ago - vehicle plates were only in Arabic - sometime in the last 10 years they changed to Arabic and English.
Hope that maybe next year or the year after or.....
Jun 24th 2013, 8:52 am
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Re: Saudi weekend to be changed to Friday and Saturday
Officially announced yesterday that the Saudi weekend will change to Friday & Saturday effective from this weekend - Causeway will be interesting for the next couple of weeks in the run up to the Comedy Month. Reckon a 3 day weekend looming for some of us living in Bahrain, working in KSA.
