Govt tightens control over employment in ‘cooperatives'

The Cooperative Societies Control and Inspection Department affiliated to the Ministry of Social Affairs, represented has given permission to its inspectors to tighten control over recruitment procedures in general related to national workforce, especially within the cooperative societies to ensure their actual presence on the job, reports Al-Jarida daily.

This happened after the daily published a news report on Jan 11, 2022 under the title entitled ‘Inspection of national labor exposes fictitious employment in cooperative societies’.

The sources pointed out that out of concern for the shareholders’ money and not affecting the financial positions of the cooperative societies, the Ministry is working to monitor any difference between the monthly salaries the employees receive.

The sources said that the ministry has obligated the “cooperatives” to follow a rational limited employment policy according to its actual needs, provided that the ratio of salaries, in executive and supervisory positions, to sales does not exceed 7 percent, according to the latest financial report without calculating exceptional sales periods, specifying the procedures to be followed.