Iraq Business News brings you the latest employment news from Iraq, highlighting the ever increasing number of available employment opportunities.
USAID-supported job training, apprenticeships and microfinance loans help unemployed Iraqi youth secure meaningful work. CHALLENGE. At the start of 2010 Iraq had the highest rates of unemployment in the Middle East. Thirty percent of its adults lacked jobs. More than half of the country's young urban males were unemployed. At 19 percent, female participation in […]
The Philippine government has lifted the ban on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Iraqi Kurdistan, according to ABS and AFP. In 2004 then-president Gloria Arroyo withdrew a contingent of Filipino police and soldiers assigned to the US-led coalition in Iraq after a Filipino truck driver was kidnapped and threatened with beheading. The […]
The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has reportedly recommended the partial lifting of the ban on deployment of workers to Iraq. According to GMA News, DFA spokesman Raul Hernandez said the agency has proposed to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) that the ban be lifted for the Kurdistan region. The DFA has yet […]
Iraq's Ministry of Construction and Housing is looking at ways to privatise their PMCM (Project and Contract Management) by bringing in an international consulting form to supervise the extensive construction works that are running and planned over the next 24 months. “We want to look at getting a company to contract in Project Management staff […]
A study by the recruitment consultants Curzon Partnership showed that executives working in Libya or Iraq can expect a total salary of around $354,900. This compares to a total salary to $454,400 a year in Nigeria, representing a 45 percent premium over salary levels in Britain for working abroad. Oil industry executives in Indonesia can […]
The government of the Philippines has reportedly re-imposed a total ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Iraq. According to the Philippine Star, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) chief Hans Cacdac said the agency’s governing board has approved a resolution halting the deployment to Iraq. “Until the security conditions have normalized, a total […]
By T. Keyzom Ngodup, co-founder at Ideas sYnergy. Ideas sYnergy is Iraq’s first multiple bottom line advisory company committed to inclusive economic and social development through market-based solutions that help build and scale youth-driven innovative ideas for social change. An Economist report rightly pointed out that when people in the developed countries worry about […]
International learning and skills specialist Atlas has expanded the global footprint of facilities capable of delivering the groundbreaking new global training initiative IMIST for the oil and gas industry with the approval of the first centre in Iraq. The accreditation of the Al Delma facility in Basra City demonstrates Iraq’s commitment to developing its energy […]
Unemployment in Iraq has reached one million, according to a report from AKnews. Dara Hasan, Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, told the agency: "We are working on a plan to bring the level of unemployment down. There are 13 new laws ready to be issued which will protect and stabilized employees' rights in […]
Iraq is planning to reduce civil service employment by one third, according to a report from AKnews. Head of the Financial Committee at the House of Representatives, Haidar Edadi told the agency that 125,000 jobs will be reduced to 85,000 "due to budget deficiency for the investment projects." (Source: AKnews)
This morning saw the launch of a major new guide to business in Iraq: Entitled "The New Iraq: 2012 Discovering Business", it was launched simultaneously in Dubai and at the "Iraq: Untapped Opportunities" conference in London. Published by Allurentis, in association with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), the guide containes a wealth of case studies, […]
The Iraqi government is to provide financial incentives for foreign companies to hire Iraqi workers, according to AKnews. The parliamentary committee for labor and services decided to reduce taxes and other 'not specified obligations' towards the Iraqi government, as well as to provide facilities to these companies. "The foreign companies can rely on their skilled […]
