DOHA: There is a proposal to fix minimum wages for GCC citizens working in both public and private sectors in member-states that are not their home countries.
The proposal is part of moves to extend the unified pension scheme to the private sector across the GCC states for GCC citizens working in member countries.
Currently, although each GCC state has its own pension scheme, some 22,576 GCC nationals who have retired serving in member-states that are not their home countries are beneficiaries of the pension scheme of the country in which they were working.
A two-day meeting of pension authority officials of the GCC states in Kuwait have decided to study the impact of fixing minimum wages for GCC citizens employed in other GCC states on the unified regional pension scheme.
The Peninsula
