On June 14, 2016 and as part as a new brutal campaign against the opposition that included citizenship revocation of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, the government dissolved religious societies that adhered to the Shia sect.

So, this is what resulted from the meetings of the heads of government Khalifa bin Salman and his brother’s grandson Salman bin Hamad. After weeks of announced public discontent due to government and private sector policies marginalizing Bahrainis and favoring foreigners in employment, the government announced cold and redundant steps to confront this discontent

If the words of businessman Yousef Mashal were painful to hear, then the injustice of your own countrymen would even feel more painful.

Bahraini Government not taking decision to abolish the parallel Bahrainization system, and the absence of the head of the Civil Service Bureau from the press conference are enough to know that the project launched by the PM is nothing but circumvention by the government.

The number of Indian foreign workers in Bahrain working in the private sector reaches about a quarter of a million, specifically 223,998 Indian workers, according to official statistics, thus making the Indian community the largest working force among the nationals residing in the Bahrain, who have been brought to the kingdom from 161 countries.

Bahraini Minister of Labor and Social Development Jameel Humaidan announced that the Ministry has intensified its efforts to settle issue of a company’s non-payment of its workers’ salaries over a period of months.

The directorate of support for civil society organizations in the Ministry of Labour and Social Development issued a circular addressing civil organizations including, charity organizations to immediately remove second hand clothes containers.

Statistics released by Bahraini Labour Ministry showed numbers of Bahraini trainees decreased drastically from 21,914 in 2015 to 2,241 in 2016.

The Bahraini Ministry of Labour and Social Development stressed that all civil society organizations are obliged to attain a license before raising funds and accepting donations.

The Bahraini Ministry of Labour stated that it recorded 7,077 cases of arbitrary dismissals since 2010 until 2015 in the Bahraini private sector.

The Bahraini Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel Humaidan revealed that 151 families deserve to be granted subsidies on meat products, adding that the number is growing as families who fit the requirements continue to register.

Representatives of public sector unions were absent from the third general conference of the General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions (GFBTU) and BATELCO Trade Union was only represented by one member of its general secretariat, Khatoun Al-Aradi.

The undersecretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social Development Sabah Al-Dosari said that the Ministry has received complaints filed by foreign employees working in one of the private Bahraini hospitals stating that they have been deprived of their salaries for more than 8 months.

Bahrain Mirror: The Ministry of Labour said that International Labour Organization (ILO)'s Director of Technical Cooperation for Appropriate Work Program, Frank Hagmann, reviewed the technical support programs provided by the ILO to the island kingdom.

Bahrain Mirror: Bahraini Labour Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Labour Affairs Mohammed Ali Al-Ansari said that job seekers, with medical specialties, registered at the ministry have reached 400

Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain’s Labour Minister Undersecretary Sabah Al-Dosari declared that the temporary employees among the list of 1912 unemployed citizens will not have their contracts renewed or fixed.

Bahrain Mirror: The local Bahraini Al-Bilad newspaper said that Bahrain’s Ministry of Labour and Social Development is leaning towards closing the Bahrain Scientific Center in Isa Town.

Bahrain Mirror: Al-Bilad newspaper said that Bahrain’s Ministry of Labour and Social Development decided to transfer the administrative staff of Ministry of Social Development (before merging) from the financial harbor to the ministry’s headquarters in Isa Town.