Yemen warns of the increase in foreign workers

A Yemen official warned of the increase in number of the foreign workers in areas that could be performed by Yemeni citizens in the future.

Abd El-Kader El-Sufi, the general manager of the civil service in Sanaa said that the governmental sector comprises 17264 non Yemeni employees that strongly exist in the education ministry, the scientific institutes, health, housing and Sanaa university while 65,000 persons work in the private sector.

He clarified in a recent study that the wages average of those people exceeded 83 million dollars annually only from the government, saying that "the governmental expenditure on the foreign labor reaches annually 123 million dollars, i.e. 15% of the country's budget which exhausts it."