KUWAIT: The Civil Service Commission urged the education and health ministries to report the names of expat employees they wish to terminate before the end of the year so that it could complete the needed procedures and replace them with Kuwaitis in the new fiscal year. In this regard, informed sources said statistics had shown that MoE and MoH have the largest numbers of expats, and that the former is expected to terminate 450 employees, while the latter is expected to terminate 300.

The sources said MoE has already started making its list including English, Computer and Literature teachers and administrative staff members, starting with the eldest. "The list will also include supervisors, namely in subjects where expats can be replaced by citizens," the sources stressed.

On the other hand, the sources explained that MoH layoffs will include administrative staff members and the eldest doctors and nursing staff members. The sources said employees to be laid off will be notified before the end of the year, while teachers will be notified before the end of the school year.

Meanwhile, MoE's assistant undersecretary for administrative development affairs Fahd Al-Ghaiss said 67 newly-recruited teachers arrived from Jordan and 12 more are to arrive soon, while 58 teachers recruited from Tunisia had arrived, with 39 more to arrive soon.

By A Saleh