KUWAIT: Kuwait
Municipality is currently working in collaboration with the Kuwait Authority
for Partnership Projects (KAPP) on offering six labor city projects to the
private sector for investment, Kuwait Municipality Director Ahmad Al-Manfouhi
said. The labor cities will have buildings with spacious accommodation areas
for laborers, including all health, security, recreational and commercial
facilities for limited-income expats residing in Kuwait without their families,
Manfouhi added. 

According to
Manfouhi, the new labor cities include a 100,000 sq m meter township to the
west of the pilgrims gathering area, another of the same size to south of the
municipality's scrap yard, a third of the same size near Shadadiya industrial
area, labor accommodations in block five in Subhan, labor accommodations in
block 11 in Subhan and a 100,000 sq m labor city to the west of Mina Abdullah.

In another
concern, Manfouhi announced that the municipality will start receiving
applications for camp licenses from Monday on its website. He added that an
agreement was made with the defense ministry to have campers sign affidavits to
pitch their camps at least two kilometers away from military camps and to keep
away from and report sighting any strange objects immediately.

Employee
performance assessment

Senior sources at
the Civil Service Commission (CSC) stressed that the new employee performance
assessment method is the responsibility of each respective state department,
and that the CSC does not interfere in the process, be that in the 70 percent
allocated for individual and group performance and personal skills or in the 30
percent concerning punctuality, attendance and commitment to punching in and
out. The CSC official added that assessment is the full responsibility of the
administrative department in each respective body and that the CSC supervises
the process.

Meanwhile,
Chairman of Kuwait Nursing Society Bandar Nashmi Al-Enezi expressed
satisfaction with the meeting he and his colleagues had with CSC Director Ahmed
Al-Jassar to discuss nurses' problems and demand more privileges for Kuwaiti
nurses. Enezi added that Jassar fully understood the demands and said Kuwaiti
nurses will get new financial and academic privileges soon. "We discussed
a new salary framework, paying nurses full salary while pursuing further
studies and considering nursing as an arduous profession," he
explained.  

By A Saleh