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Saudi football clubs warn that a Labor Ministry-imposed quota system for Saudi nationals will disadvantage clubs by preventing them from hiring foreign talent Mounting anger among Saudi football clubs at their subjugation to quotas - designed to encourage employment of Saudi nationals and reduce dependence on foreign labor - illustrates the problems encountered by wealthy Gulf countries in bal

 Labor Ministry to curtail clauses allowing for early pensions

By Roula Salourou

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Palliative remedies to chronic problems cannot produce lasting or efficient cures to the ailment. Irrespective of political ideology, religion, ethnicity or language, miners are losing their lives in this country because “such deaths are in the nature of the mining industry.” After all, such accidents are exceptional, are they not?

Members of a labor union were detained after protesting against fatal labor accidents in front of the Labor and Social Security Ministry on Nov. 5.

By Roula Salourou

Just 11 collective labor agreements are currently in effect, covering between 7 and 10 percent of Greece’s salaried workforce, compared to 161 such contracts representing almost all of Greece private sector workers on a nationwide level in 2008, the National Institute has said.

According to the Ankara representative of daily Yeni Şafak, Abdülkadir Selvi, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told the families of the victims who died in the coal mine accident in Ermenek: “I wish you had written a letter before and informed us of this in some way; we could have done what was necessary.”

Two years after the second sequel to this column’s “headlines” series and having just commemorated the Republic’s 91th anniversary, here we go again with more headlines from the Istanbul press in the year 2023:

Greece is due to send by Saturday its proposal on several of the key issues that remain unresolved in its talks with the troika in the hope that this might pave the way for the current program review to be concluded by the Eurogroup on December 8.

Labor Minister Faruk Çelik expresses his exasperation at mining safety in Turkey, suggesting efforts to improve conditions are being blocked by a coterie of interests Turkish Labor Minister Faruk Çelik has admitted that the state is having trouble in closing down mines under bad conditions, implying that local nepotism was hampering efforts.

The owner of the flooded mine where 18 workers are trapped is a former mayoral candidate for the ruling AKP The mine where 18 workers remain trapped after a flood on Oct. 28 is owned by a former mayoral candidate from Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).