Meeting held with firms not meeting Omanisation rates

Muscat: The recruitment follow up team of the manufacturing sector held meeting with 41 companies that have not yet complied with the Omanisation ratio.
The team discussed with them importance of utilising Omani skills at various job levels. The recruitment follow up team was formed under the Ministerial Decision No. 55/2019 in the chairmanship of the director general of industries with the representation from various other concerned organisations of the sector. They included Ministry of Manpower, Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE), support. implementation and follow up units as well as Oman Industrialists Association.
Engineer Sami Bin Salem Al Saheb, Director General of Industries and chairman of the technical team for the follow-up of employment in the manufacturing sector, said: Recently, a team was formed to follow up the Omanisation plans proposed by the companies, including at the jobs proposed for direct recruitment and recruitment post training and replacement plan.
The team will analyse the proposals of the industrial establishments to look into the challenges being faced by them and would work to solve them. It will also do the follow up the work and commitment of the comapneis in terms of Omaisation. It will give proposals to the officials according the challenges and sensitivities of the sector.
The head of the technical team of follow-up of the recruitment in the manufacturing sector said that the team had to survey all the career opportunities currently available, agree upon or expected for Omanis in the manufacturing sector.
This is through meetings and discussions with the industrial establishments about their plans for Omanisation and recruitments so far as well as following up of the industrial establishments which come under the umbrella of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in regards with compliance with recruitment plans.
Sami Al Saheb said: "About the availability of the appropriate national skills, the team will discuss these requirements with the National Training Fund to train Omanis to work in the industrial sector. The team will also look into the opportunities of replacements in the economic projects and will do follow up of it."
"The team will also analyse the challenges arising due to matching the recruitment and work data with the Ministry of Manpower and the National Centre for Statistics. It will work to update them and unify all these information. The team will also study and determine the challenges in the way of recruitment and replacement in the sector. It will also give proposals to make the sector more attractive," he added.