KUWAIT: Deputy manager of managerial affairs, Rajaa Bo-Arki, affirmed the Ministry of Education's insistence on stabilizing work at all educational sectors and ensure the continuation of providing services by covering all school needs, by contracting 940 service workers. "Exceptional procedures have been taken by our department in cooperation with other departments to fix the inability of some cleaning companies to provide workers," Bo-Arki said during a press conference.

They will be distributed to educational areas where there is a lack of workers, based on the school's needs. "The ministry has resorted to the option of employing service workers and completing their hiring procedures as soon as possible in preparation for the new 2022-23 academic year," she said, adding that the ministry will not be lenient against companies that do not adhere to their contracts.

"The problem mostly exists in Capital and Mubarak Al-Kabeer governorates, where the ministry has provided workers, after companies were not able to do so, as well as in Hawally," Bo-Arki said. "As for the Ahmadi governorate, the department has started contacting related departments in order to fix the problem of violating companies, to start work from January 2023," she added. Bo-Arki expressed her appreciation for workers in the educational sector, wishing them best of luck during the new academic year.