Bahrain Mirror: A group of unemployed female university graduates, known as "1912 Unemployed", expressed their frustration and disappointment, after a series of unfulfilled promises to find a solution to their problem and after being dismissed from their jobs at the onset of 2015.

For his part, Sayed Salman Al-Mahfouz, the Secretary-General of the General Federation of Bahraini Trade Unions (GFBTU) saw that the real solution for the "1912 Unemployed" crisis needs an official decision that obliges the parties who dismissed them to reinstate them to their previous jobs.

The unemployed stressed that they contacted the officials in the Ministry of Labor that offered them jobs as vendors in malls and fast-food restaurants. They wondered whether these jobs suit their degrees and 5-year experience that they gained during their work in ministries and private sector institutions.

As for the meeting recently held between the GFBTU and National Institution for Human Rights, the spokesperson of the group, Sawsan Esmail, said "there is nothing new until now. It seems that the meeting failed to lead to positive results."

"What's noteworthy is the state of unseriousness that occupies the ministry. One of its officials told us: We can't oblige the institutions to employ you," She added, pointing out to a phone call a couple of days ago made by the official assigned to deal with the unemployed graduates file in the Ministry of Labor to one of the private schools in order to ask about vacancies.

"This call came to throw dust in our eyes. Two weeks after the school opens, which for sure has finished the process of employment, the ministry calls the school. The logical result would be negative of course," she further stated.

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