Saudi Labour Law & Nitaqat Changes 2026:
Saudi Arabia’s Labour Law has just undergone its biggest overhaul in years: 38 articles amended, 7 removed, and 2 new provisions added, covering contracts, leave, and worker protections. Enforcement has grown sharply stricter since, and a parallel overhaul of the Kingdom’s Saudization programme, targeting 340,000 additional localised jobs by 2028, is reshaping who employers can hire and how. None of this affects only one type of reader. Employers operating in Saudi Arabia now face real compli
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