El Ghazi: “Detailed report about hiring-related abuses by southern-based oil Companies”

Minister of labour, employment and social security, Mohamed El Ghazi, affirmed during a working visit of inspection to the province of Ouargla in southern Algeria that a series of new measures will be taken to resolve the vexed employment file in the South of the country.

He also announced the sending of ministerial committees to investigate the abuses reportedly committed by some southern-based energy companies which violated the Government’s decisions regarding the impartial hiring of new workers.

Mr El Ghazi also stressed his ministerial department’s will to continue to apply the firm guidelines issued of late by the Presidency of the Republic concerning this sensitive file.

The Minister said in a statement to “Echorouk”on the sidelines of his working visit of inspection to Ouargla province that he would convey an exhaustive report to the Prime Minister Mr Sellal about the ins and outs of this lingering issue after seeing for himself the evolution of the situation in the region.

It should be noted that the Prime Minister himself had clearly ordered the recruitment within the southern-based oil and energy-related companies of workers hailing from these southern regions as a top priority.

The employment issue in the south of the country has been for long a bone of contention between the local authorities and disgruntled unemployed youngsters who staged several violent protests in the region to demand the availability of new job opportunities within southern-based companies away from any favoritism or cronyism.