Job cuts likely in Gulf
NZPA-ReuterManama, Bahrain The six countries in the Gulf Co-operation Council will cut one million jobs over the next five years, the Bahraini Development and Industry Minister Yousef Shirawi, was quoted as saying. Saudi Arabia, the council’s leading member, would reduce its workforce by 600,000 during the period, the English-language “Gulf Daily News quoted the Minister as telling a marketing conference of the airline, Gulf Air. The council also including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, has had a construction boom over the last decade, but much of the infrastructure has now been completed, reducing workforce requirements.
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Press, 14 May 1985, Page 32
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