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Foreign companies exploit kurdish workers
Topic Started: Nov 21 13, 8:31 (1,240 Views)
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A Kurdish MP in Baghdad has revealed that the difference in salaries and inequality are one of the major problems between local and foreign workers in oil companies.

Bayazid Hassan, a member of the Iraqi parliament’s Natural Resources Committee told BasNews that oil contracts in Iraq are the same as ones in the South Kurdistan.

Hassan explained that one of the conditions imposed by the government on oil companies is that “the portion of local workers should not be less than 75 percent.”

“The Iraqi central government is not aware of the energy agreements made by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and the KRG is responsible for the oil companies working in the region” Hassan said.

“In the Rumellan oil field, companies run learning and training courses for the local workers, to teach them languages and new skills, but I do not know if there is such thing in the South Kurdistan,” Hassan added.

In regard to the income inequality between local and foreign workers, a Kurdish official at a foreign oil company spoke to BasNews on condition of anonymity: “Kurdish workers are exploited by oil companies working in the South Kurdistan.”

Foreign worker do not get paid less than $2,000 per month, while local workers make 430,000 ID (approximately $370) per month. The highest salary for local worker is 5 million ID (approximately $4,000), even when foreign and local workers have the same level of experience, the Kurdish official added.

Salah Muhammad is a worker in one of the oil companies in South Kurdistan: “Kurdish workers remain silent despite the unfair treatment, because they are afraid of getting fired.”

The South Kurdistan is known to be rich in natural resources, with 30 percent of Iraq’s oil reserves. They have 45 billion barrels of oil in reserves and close to 5.7 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, according to a recent report by The Oil and Gas Year.

Major companies like ExxonMobil, Total and Chevron signed contracts with Kurdistan for the exploration and development of more than ten oil and gas blocks in 2011. Many other oil companies have started operating in the South Kurdistan of Iraq.


http://www.basnews.net/en/News/Details/Foreign-Oil-companies-exploit-Kurdish-workers/5816
Edited by lashgare, Nov 21 13, 8:31.
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Please post in oil topic do I can delete it from here
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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