: Pricing Emiratis out of a job.
The National has a story this morning about security guards in Dubai protesting because they are payed much less than their colleagues in Abu Dhabi.
At the beginning of the year the the Ministry of Interior declared a minimum salary for expat guards at Dh2,000 a month, but that hasn’t yet been applied in Dubai.
However, there was a particular sentence in the story that intrigued me:
“In January, the Ministry of Interior announced that expatriate security guards would have to earn at least Dh2,000 a month and Emirati ones Dh6,000 as part of a new accreditation scheme for private security companies. “
Now I can see that maybe the Emirati salary was introduced in an attempt to encourage Emiratis to apply for employment. But I can’t imagine any company owner tripling his salary bill simply to employ them.
Counter productive, surely?
