On Friday, the Saudi monarch, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, issued an order for the government to bear 60 percent of the salaries of Saudi employees in the private sector.
According to the Saudi Press Agency, "SPA", King Salman ordered the exclusion of Saudi workers, in private sector enterprises affected by the consequences of the Corona virus, from several articles of the unemployment insurance scheme.
Thanks to this support, the employer has the right, instead of terminating the contract of the Saudi worker, to apply for social insurance by requesting a monthly compensation payment for his workers with 60 percent of the wage registered in social insurance for a period of three months, with a maximum of nine thousand riyals per month, and with a total value of 9 billion riyals.