Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — The Ministry of Human Assets and Social Growth (MHRSD) has issued 2,358,000 self-employment paperwork for freelancers till the tip of the primary half of 2023.
This determine was contained within the statistics of platforms of contemporary work patterns launched by the ministry throughout the Kingdom. There are greater than 1,674,600 freelance employees within the Kingdom. The info additionally confirmed that there are 281 accredited professions for issuing self-employment paperwork for freelancers, and 47 accredited service suppliers.
The ministry is issuing one-year legitimate freelance certificates that grants Saudi residents registration in various actions. It provides them alternatives to work independently within the actions accredited by the ministry by means of the net portal of self-employment. This doc permits the freelancers to have voluntary registration in social insurance coverage, concluding contract with authorities and personal companies to make use of the doc as an official doc, in addition to to open checking account linked to the doc, along with utilizing digital cost channels.
The ministry has additionally issued 377,800 versatile work contracts, and licenses for 115,000 distant staff through the interval till June 30, 2023. The businesses that depend on distant work and versatile work accounted for 7,800 and seven,600 firms respectively. Greater than 15 digital providers have been made obtainable for the platforms that have been launched for contemporary work patterns.
Minister of Human Assets and Social Growth and Chairman of the Board of Administrators of the Future Enterprise Firm Eng. Ahmed Al-Rajhi emphasised that these achievements mirror the quantity of the response to the brand new adjustments being launched within the labor market on the organizational and supervisory ranges and that allow younger Saudi women and men to work in fashionable patterns, and investing their skills and abilities to contribute to financial improvement.
It’s noteworthy that the Future Work Firm continues its efforts to launch the service of discounted medical insurance coverage packages for the freelancers, and that’s in partnership with various banking service suppliers so as to facilitate the journey of the self-employed in benefiting from banking merchandise and digital funds. The corporate additionally launched the Med Platform to offer sustainable job alternatives that maintain tempo with the orientation of contemporary work sample packages.
The corporate is working to activate the self-employment financial system to unlock the limitless potential of the Saudi residents. It seeks to realize a affluent financial system based mostly on options that simulate the aspirations of the nation’s younger women and men by making a free labor market.