Latest News
- Internet Censorship Pact Condemned By MP-elect Bushehri
- Police Arrest Two Men Previously Convicted In Misdemeanor Cases
- The Theft Of 50 Birds In Kuwait’s Barr Abdaliyah Area
- Anti-Corruption Authority Efforts Embrace An Integrated Work Sys...
- European Union Keen On Exempting Kuwaitis From Schengen Visa
- Expat Admits Killing His Compatriot In A Quarrel Over Cash
- Decomposed Corpse Of A Girl Found In Nugra Flat
- 4.4% Private Sector Employment Sparks Concerns In Kuwait
- CSC Separates Job Appointments From Specific Agencies
- Municipality Shuts Store And Issues 23 Violations
- Kuwaiti Tweeter Jailed For Insulting Rulers, Judiciary, And Nati...
- MoH Opens Registration For Scholarships And Study Leaves
Kuwait’s Ministers Urged To Help University Lecturers Stuck Abroad
Kuwait’s ministers of health, interior and higher education have been urged to help university lecturers stuck abroad due to travel restrictions, to return to the country to do their job.
Last month, Kuwait announced a ban on flights from 32 countries due to health concerns over the COVID-19 spread.
Head of the Kuwait University Faculty Association Ebrahim Al Hamud said that teaching staffers stuck abroad are not to blame for their dilemma.
“This is due to a compulsory situation represented in the closure of airports and preventing movement to stop the spread of the new coronavirus,” he said in media remarks.
Al Hamud described the lecturers stranded abroad as victims unable to return to Kuwait to do their job.
He called for exempting them from legal obligations stated in their job contracts including being absent from work.
According to education regulations, the teaching staff member has to be present in Kuwait to do his job. “Such obligations are impossible to fulfil in real and legal terms,” he said, referring to the compulsory absence of the lecturers.
“I ask the ministers of health, interior and higher education to intervene to allow the teaching staff members to enter the country and return to the university,” Al Hamud said, suggesting the stranded lecturers be deemed on paid compulsory leave. Kuwait has not said how many university teachers are still unable to return to the country due to the virus-related travel curbs.
Trending News
-
Kuwait Implements Home Biometrics Services Ahead O...
14 April 2024
-
Kuwait Airways Provides Update On Flight Schedule...
14 April 2024
-
Kuwait Airways Introduces Convenient Home Luggage...
15 April 2024
-
Expat Residency Law Amended By Kuwait Ministerial...
20 April 2024
-
Gathering For Eid Al-Fitr Prayers: Kuwaiti Citizen...
10 April 2024
-
Two Expats Are Arrested For Stealing From Salmiya...
17 April 2024
-
An Egyptian Expat Dies At Kuwait's Airport
11 April 2024
-
Bay Zero Water Park Kuwait: Summer Season Opens Ei...
11 April 2024
-
Temperature Increases Cause Electricity Load Index...
21 April 2024
-
Kuwait Airways Resumes Flights To Beirut And Oman...
15 April 2024
Comments Post Comment