A large company owned by a former Bahraini minister that works in the field of electricity services has stopped paying the salaries of all its 1,200 employees and workers for three months, a local newspaper said, quoting trade union sources.

Law graduates in Bahrain complained about the difficulties they suffer from during their training period that is considered a condition to receive a license to practice law. They said that they receive low wages, reaching sometimes 100 BD as well as what they consider “belittlement” by other lawyers and being treated as reporters or transition brokers.

Sources said that Mercury Construction Company has not paid wages for its employees since 6 months. Mercury Construction is considered the second largest construction company that fails to pay its employees’ wages after G.P. Zachariades Company that is still incapable of paying its employees’ wages due to the government parties’, especially Bahrain, failure to pay their dues.

Number of labourers in Bahrain protested on Saturday before the company gates they work for in the village of Jannusan, demanding that they get paid their wages that have been reportedly delayed for the past four months.

Head of the Parliamentary Investigative Committee on the pension funds manage by the Social Insurance Organization, Majeed Al-Asfour, said that the government failed to pay the pensions for some contributors during some periods.

6 months passed on the employees of the Northern governorate municipality, without them taking their salaries from the Ministry of Works, Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning.

Bahrain Minister of Labor and Social Development Jameel Humaidan, revealed that the number of Bahraini family providers with 300 Bahraini Dinars or less in salaries, exceed 45 thousand.

The Executive Director of the Labor Market Regulatory Authority Osama al-Absi, confirmed that “all employers were obliged to transfer all salaries to all workers to the banks, and they are expected to start these transfers during 2018.

Saudi Arabia will cut ministers' salaries by 20 percent and scale back financial perks for public sector employees in one of the most drastic measures yet by the energy-rich kingdom to save money at a time of low oil prices