Case M5: Ministry of Labor & Employment – A Job Portal Isn’t a Workforce Architecture 💲
- Sunil Dutt Jha
- Jun 18
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 2
Resumes Were Collected. But the Employment System Was Never Designed.
Part of the “One Government, One Anatomy” Review
This case is one of 19 ministries analyzed in ICMG’s structural diagnostic across the Middle East.
From Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD), to the UAE’s Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE), to Bahrain’s Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) and Oman’s Ministry of Labour — nearly every country has introduced digital systems for workforce regulation.
From job portals and digital work permits to employer databases, labor dashboards, and quota enforcement tools, modernization efforts are well underway.
But across all of them, we found the same pattern:
Labor systems were digitized. But the employment enterprise was never architected.
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