Representational imageMuscat: Overseas workers, including many from Kerala, in Oman are facing the heat of a labor crisis with many nurses being served with a termination notice.
As many as 76 nurses, including 48 from Kerala, had been serving a three-month notice period, the validity of which will end on Monday. It is said that the move aims to promote labor localization.
The nurses have been asked to return from the Arab country within eight days. Meanwhile, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday instructed the Norka secretary to intervene in the labor crisis in the Gulf.
Earlier, over 10,000 Indians working in Saudi Arabia had lost their jobs after the country implemented the Nitaqat law, which was aimed at promoting local laborers. Majority of the affected were working in the construction sector. Many of them have several months' salary pending with their respective organizations.
The central government has initiated steps to bring back the Indians who are stranded in Saudi. The steps are coordinated under the supervision of the Indian embassy in Riyadh.
