The Secretary General of GFBTU, Hassan Al-Halwachi, announced that "the trade union work is witnessing a serious decline due to the fierce struggle of a number of large companies to weaken and marginalize it at a time when the Ministry of Labor is looking at what is happening in a negative way and not doing what expresses its real role as provided by the International labor standards, being the party responsible for protecting labor rights, respecting trade union freedoms and imposing respect on employers."

The Ministry of Labor failed to implement the legal violation approved by the cabinet, Shura council and parliament, regarding the distribution of labor representation seats in the board of directors of the Public Authority for Social Insurance.