1st grace period for guest workers ends; 2nd starts Tuesday

Turkish rescue workers have retrieved the bodies of the last two missing miners in the nation’s worst mining disaster, putting the final death toll at 301, the energy minister said Saturday.

The Ministry of Labour has issued 69,000 work permits over the past month, and 65 per cent of them were for Egyptian guest workers, Labour Minister Nidal Katamine said on Monday.

The Cabinet on Wednesday gave illegal guest workers a grace period between March 16 and May 15 to rectify their situation and renew their work permits.