What the 2026 Ajeer rules changed, and what it means for your site
Ministerial Resolution 60339 took effect on 26 January 2026. The headline is that documentation moved from good practice to a precondition — and it now depends on the receiving establishment's records too, not just the supplier's.
Compliance · Ajeer
If you take supplied labour onto a site in the Kingdom, the rules governing that arrangement changed at the start of this year, and the change puts a requirement on you rather than only on your supplier.
This is a plain-language summary of what shifted. It is not legal advice, and anything you intend to rely on should be checked with MHRSD or your own counsel — regulations move.
What changed
Ministerial Resolution No. 60339, dated 25 October 2025, took effect on 26 January 2026. It governs the internal secondment — outsourcing — of non-Saudi workers between establishments through the Ajeer programme.
The substance of it:
- Use of the Ajeer platform to document, approve and regulate these arrangements is mandatory, not optional practice.
- Worker data must be recorded through an electronic Ajeer contract on the platform.
- Both establishments — the supplier and the receiving company — must hold valid commercial registrations or professional licences.
- Both must comply with the Wage Protection System and with Nitaqat requirements.
Why the “both establishments” part matters
Previously it was easy to treat compliance as the supplier’s problem. If the paperwork was wrong, that was between the supplier and the ministry.
That is no longer a safe assumption. Because approval now depends on the receiving establishment’s records as well, a supplier can do everything correctly and the contract can still fail to go through — because of a WPS flag or a Nitaqat position on your establishment.
The practical consequence: if your own records have an issue, you will discover it when a crew you were expecting on Sunday cannot be registered. That is a bad moment to find out.
What to do before your next release
Check your own WPS status before you place the requirement, not after. This is the single most common cause of a delayed mobilization we see, and it is entirely preventable.
Ask the supplier to raise the Ajeer contract early. There is no reason for it to sit until the week of mobilization, and raising it early surfaces problems while there is still time to fix them.
Ask to see the registered contract, not a promise of one. A supplier who is doing this properly can show you a registered Ajeer contract for the workers you are receiving. One who cannot may be operating on a handshake, and the exposure from that does not stay neatly on their side of the fence.
Check the profession code on the Iqama matches the work. A man documented as a general labourer who is working as a welder is a finding waiting to happen, regardless of how competent he is at welding.
The honest read
For suppliers who were already documenting properly, the resolution changed process, not principle. For anyone who was not, it removed the room to improvise.
For clients, the useful shift is that “are you compliant?” is now a question with a checkable answer. Ask to see the registration. A supplier who treats that as an unreasonable request has answered it.