Directorate General of Employment

The ministry currently cooperates and coordinates with various government apparatuses and private companies and establishments to put the aforesaid procedures in place through implementing the following:

• Sanad plan to Omanise a series of commercial activities and vocations and support individual initiatives by financing such projects from the Sanad fund for supporting and developing the small projects.
• Increasing Omanisation percentage in various economic sectors, in accordance with the steps endorsed by the national labor force employment seminars and expanding the vocations practiced by citizens and providing nationals with required legal protection and support.
• Completing the establishing of the national labor force register to avail adequate information about this national workforce.
• Completing the establishing of the labor force information system to provided sufficient information about the national and expatriate labor force.
• Developing and enhancing the important role of the ministry’s employment offices which spread in the Sultanate’s various regions and governorates.
• Linking the Omanisation sector plans at the companies level to the registration of job-seekers in order to facilitate the selection of candidates for employment at these establishments.
• According a priority in employment to those who registered as job seekers for the first time and drafting regulations regarding nomination of job seekers who are repeatedly terminated or resigned from work and preparing awareness and rehabilitation programmes for such cases.
• Urging citizens with individual initiatives to utilize the opportunities offered by the Sanad programme to establish their own projects.
• Providing job seekers with jobs at their places of residence.

Services for National Job Seekers

Providing job seekers with training and employment services and small projects:

The ministry’s employment offices provide job seekers with advice. The offices receive the job seeker application and enters its date into the computer, after ensuring that the citizen has enrolled at the national labor force register. In the light of the recorded information, the offices deal with job seekers according to three paths:

First Path: New Job Seekers

The first path relates to the new job seekers who enrolled at the employment office for the first time. These are divided into two categories:

The first category: New Job Seekers (Skilled):-

This category’s applications are received and they are provided with consultation through the following steps:

• Reviewing qualifications of the job seeker and matching them to the available job opportunities at the private sector’s establishment registered at the employment office.
• The best three job opportunities which fit the job seeker’s qualifications are selected to discuss them with him and provide him with the requirements, salary level and benefits related to this post.
• In case the job seeker has initially accepted the job, the concerned private establishment shall be contacted to nominate him to fill the post and an interview date shall be fixed. The interview shall be held at the employment office in the presence of the employer, or his representative and the ministry’s representative.
• If the job seeker accepted the offer and the employer agreed to employ him, the office has to embark on the appointment steps and prepare a contract with must include all terms and the date of starting work at the establishment.
• In case the two parties have not agreed, the job seeker shall be referred to another establishment to nominate him for another job.
• After signing the contract, the newly appointed employee shall join a guidance course at the employment office to educate him on the provisions of the Omani labor law, work behavior and employees` rights and duties.
• The employee commences his job according to the terms mentioned in the contract signed by him and the employer. The contract must be endorsed by the employment office.
• The employee shall be registered at the Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) to ensure that he will enjoy the benefits offered to the laborer and his family by the social insurance system.

The second category: New Job Seekers (Unskilled)

• The job seeker must be received by a concerned employee at the employment office to explain to him the importance of being vocationally qualified in order to be capable of joining the labor market. In the light of the job opportunities available at the private establishments and the pertinent training plan, the job seeker will be directed to seize the available vocational training opportunity.
• If the job seeker has agreed to utilize the available training opportunity, a date shall be fixed for an interview.
• This interview is held with the participation of representatives of the establishment which will employ him after completing the training programme the training institute and the ministry’s employment office.
• After reviewing the candidate tendency and readiness, he shall be nominated to join the training programme.
• Before starting actual training, an “under training” contract shall be prepared to be signed by the job seeker and his parent. The contract shall be approved by the tribe Sheikh before it is endorsed by the Wali of the Wilayat in which the trainee resides.
• The ministry endorses the training contract, after the training period is specified and the commitments of the establishment, trainee and institute are identified in the contract which shall also include the area of training and the vocation which will be filled by the candidate after he completes the training period and the monthly salary of the post.
• After the completion of training, a contract shall be prepared to enable the trainee to join the vocation specified in the "under training" contract.
• He/She shall begin work according to the time and place mentioned in the contract.
• The employee shall be registered at the Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) to ensure that he will enjoy the benefits offered to the laborer and his family by the social insurance system.

The Second Path: Job Seekers who worked previously

These are classified into two categories:

The first category: Those who resigned from Private Establishments

The employment office shall cease providing this category with any services for one year starting from the date the laborer has resigned. Such a measure is taken for the following purposes:

• To limit speedy shifting from one job to another among the newly appointed Omanis at the private establishments, in order to curb any negative impact on the Omanisation plan.
• To provide the new entrants to the labor market with opportunities to work in the private sector.
• To curb optional unemployment among the Omani labor force and stress the importance of commitment to work.

After the one year period ,the employment office will assist the resigned laborer in finding another job ( if he remained a job seeker) and shall he ( she) be subject to the steps applied on the skilled job seekers as illustrated hereinabove.

The second category: Terminated laborers

This category shall be subject to the procedures relating to new skilled job seekers which are adopted by the employment office.

The Third Path: Those who intend to establish Small Projects (Sanad Program)

These are classified into two categories:

First category: Craftsmen

The employment office shall cease to provide this category with any services for one year starting from the date the laborer has resigned. Such a measure is taken to guide them on how to utilize the Sanad programme and the soft loans granted by its fund for the support and development of small projects to establish their own crafts and commercial projects.

Second category : New entrants to the labor market

The employment office guides this category to utilize the Sanad programme for supporting individual initiatives to establish their own enterprises. They are advised to participate in training programmes organized by the Sanad programme within its plan to Omanise commercial and craft vocations in the Sultanate’s Wilayats. These youth are also instructed to establish their own workshops and shops and utilize the legal protection and the other services offered by the fund.

The ministry currently distributes the available opportunities electronically to the employment offices, affiliated to the directorates general of manpower in the Sultanate’s regions and govenorates.