KUWAIT CITY, May 25: Assistant Undersecretary for Administrative Affairs at the Ministry of Education Aisha Al-Roudhan has disclosed that the ministry has notified the Central Tenders Committee (CTC) to stop dealing with companies that do not pay employees’ salaries and also to stop their participation in public tenders, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.
Al-Roudan made the statement after employees of certain companies protested against non-payment of their salaries, and promised that the ministry will furnish the CTC with the list of companies involved in such acts.
She urged contractors to pay employees their salaries on due and abide by the contract agreements, indicating the ministry will no longer condone such acts, and will take decisive measures against violating companies.

Meanwhile, senior officials from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor have confirmed the Public Authority for Labor (PAL), approved by the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, will be activated before January 2011. The PAL was approved with the support of a team of specialists from the ministry, reports Arrouiah daily.
The officials noted the authority is different from the Public Authority for Disabled (PAD), which requires a private bill to be approved by the National Assembly, and the Fatwa and Legislative Committee before its establishment.
In another unrelated development, based on directives issued by the Minister of Interior Sheikh Jaber Al-Khalid, 53 employees of the Nuwaiseeb border exit will be placed in various departments of the ministry, due to recent demonstrations they held to demand increments and other allowances, reports Al-Seyassah daily quoting reliable sources.
The same sources explained that several workers at the border held demonstrations, with the support of NGOs, activists and politicians, to demand a salary increase and other allowances, which hindered activities at the border exits, and left passengers stranded, particularly at the Nuwaiseeb land border.