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Premier Recruitment makes first deployment to Saudi Arabia

Elisha Z. Bwanika by Elisha Z. Bwanika
6 years ago
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Eight Ugandan women have landed lucrative two-year deals to work in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The women, who travelled on Tuesday, were recruited by Premier Recruitment Ltd.

A member of the Ruparelia Group, Premier Recruitment Ltd is barely six months in the private labour recruitment market. The company is licensed by Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development for Internal Recruitment and a member of the Uganda Association of External Recruitment Agencies.

The jovial ladies left Entebbe International Airport aboard Ethiopian Airlines and safely touched down in Jeddah on Wednesday, January 20.

They were seen off by Kanak Shah, the Premier Recruitment Ltd, General Manager and Marley Ritah, the External Recruitment Operations Manager.

In Jeddah, they were received by partners and associates of Premier Recruitment, for onward placement at their respective places of work.

Marley, advised the ladies to continue acting professionally and work hard so as to pave way for more Ugandan recruits.

“This is the first of many, many more to come. We are very proud of this moment and wish all the eight (8) ladies the best of luck in this new chapter of their lives,” she said.

Kanak reiterated the company’s commitment to provide ‘gainful and dignified employment opportunities’ to Ugandans here and abroad.

“Premier Recruitment has a commitment to helping decrease the high level of Ugandan unemployment by providing opportunities for Ugandans here in Uganda and abroad. We are committed to providing a superior level of customer service, compliance, integrity and honesty to both our clients and recruits and those already deployed to the field,” he said.

Kanak added that all company staff have been trained about the relevant labour laws, so as to be able to ‘deliver a professional recruitment service’ but also keep everyone up-to-date and compliant with ‘any changes and updates within Employment Law, both here and abroad.’

$1.24 billion (UGX4.5 trillion) industry

According to Mr. Rajiv Ruparelia, CEO Premier Recruitment, the Uganda labour externalisation industry is a vital source of livelihood for both the employees and their families and a major pillar of the economy that ought to be protected by all the stakeholders and bad apples weeded out.

The girls get last minute advice and their documentation from Marley Ritah
The girls get last minute advice and their documentation from Marley Ritah

“Uganda has a competitive advantage over a number of African countries because of our good English that we need to leverage just like our neighbours in Kenya. According to the World Bank and IMF Balance of Payments as well as Bank of Uganda data, personal remittances to Uganda have grown by 174.6 per cent from $451.6 million (UGX1.66 trillion) in 2007 to $1.24billion (UGX4.5 trillion) in 2017, but our neighbours, Kenya raked in $1.962 billion (UGX7.2 trillion) in 2017 and $2.5 billion (UGX9.2 trillion) in 2018,” noted Rajiv, adding: “Diaspora remittances to Uganda are equivalent to 30 per cent of Uganda’s traditional export earnings- $3.4bn (UGX12.5 trillion) in 2017 and $3.6bn (UGX13.2 trillion) in 2018 and almost 3 times bigger than coffee export receipts- $555.4m (UGX2 trillion) in 2017 and $436.4m (UGX1.6 trillion) in 2018. Protecting and harnessing more value from this vital sector should be the responsibility of everyone.”

Rajiv also said, beyond direct economic gains, labour externalization had other benefits such skills transfer, mobilization of capital for investment and improving household incomes and standards of living for their dependents back home.

The Bank of Uganda, Personal Transfers Survey 2017 indicated that the Middle East was the second biggest source of remittances to Uganda (28.6 per cent) after Africa (29 per cent). Europe (20.7 per cent) and North/South America (18.41 per cent) were third and fourth respectively.

According to the Uganda Association for External Recruitment Agencies, there are 140,000 skilled and semi-skilled Ugandans working in the Middle East as blue-collar professionals as well as technicians, security personnel, porters, drivers, cleaners, housekeepers, catering and hospitality personnel.

Domestic workers only account for about 30 per cent.

The survey also showed that remittances benefited up to 820,000 households and that $6 out of every $10 received, went to financing household expenses and education.


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