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Mona Almoayyed, Managing Director of Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons, makes a case for minimum wage.
She argues: "In the first world, there is a minimum wage for everyone and in Bahrain we have minimum wage for Bahrainis. So I don’t see why we don’t have a minimum wage for foreigners. But I think it needs to be done throughout the gulf. When the GCC meets they should decide on a minimum wage. It doesn’t have to be as high as the national one but at least there should be a decent wage to live a decent life. I think we are campaigning for this and we really want it to happen although considering I come from the business side, I feel like when you construct a building, the money you pay the laborers is so small compared to the material you use for the building. So it will just increase the cost marginally not by a huge amount. I really feel like humans should be treated better than how we treat our foreigners here."