Mohammad Al-Dallal, who heads the panel Al-Hashem attended, told reporters the large number of expats in the country puts pressure on essential services and infrastructure.
Dallal was quoted as saying that his committee was expected to recommend that the government bar foreign workers from some private sector job roles to make them “entirely for Kuwaitis” over the next 10-15 years.
Similar steps are being taken in the public sector, with the Civil Services Commission (CSC) saying in August it planned to terminate more than 44,5000 foreign workers and replace them with citizens in the coming years.
In addition, the country’s central bank has instructed local lenders to increase the percentage of Kuwaiti’s in their workforce to 80 per cent by the end of the year resulting in up to 17,000 foreign workers being replaced.
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