KUWAIT CITY, July 25: Around 3,000 citizens working in various departments of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor depend on their Asian laborers employed as office boys to sign their attendance cards on their behalf, reports Al-Seyassah daily quoting a reliable ministry source. The same source added those personnel receive their monthly salaries, even though they do not step into their offices. He indicated the phenomenon is common in the Social Care sector. Meanwhile, senior ministry officials confirm the statement but consider the number as exaggerated somehow.

He added that administrative procedures will be adopted to force the employees in question to comply with the official working hours or resign. The source also stressed that many departments in the ministry suffer employee shortage, irrespective of the many workers registered under those departments, and other employees who are dedicated to duty complain bitterly due to pressure at work, as they receive equal salaries with their counterparts who rarely come to work.