The meanings of the following words and phrases - wherever they appear in these rules - are as defined below, unless the context of the text indicates otherwise.

Ministry: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.

Minister: Minister of Human Resources and Social Development.

Law: Labor Law.

Rules: Rules for practicing recruitment activities and providing labor services.

Licensee: Entities that have obtained a license from the Ministry to provide the activities specified in these rules.

Foreign Employee: A non-Saudi employee working in the public or private sector.

Domestic Labor: Domestic service workers and those in similar positions, of both genders.

Local Contracting: Utilizing labor services from male and female workers from within the Kingdom, from categories for which specific instructions have been issued to regulate their conditions for the benefit of employers.

Competent Agency: The agency responsible for the services provided to the licensees.

Employer: Any natural or legal person who contracts with the licensee to mediate the recruitment of one or more workers to employ them for a specified period in exchange for a wage.

Client: Any natural or legal person who contracts with the licensee to provide labor services for a specified period.

Company: The company licensed to practice the activities regulated by the provisions of these rules.

Foreign Investment Company: An establishment licensed by the Ministry of Investment for a foreign company licensed in the home country to engage in the activity of exporting labor, which has been licensed by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development to practice domestic labor recruitment and provide domestic labor services.

Local Contracting Company: The company licensed to provide labor services from categories for which specific instructions have been issued to regulate their conditions, in accordance with the provisions of these rules.

Office: The licensed recruitment office authorized to mediate in recruitment activities and any other related activities permitted by the Ministry.

Applicant: The person who applies to the Ministry for initial approval or a license to establish one of the entities specified in these rules.

Activity: The activity permitted for the licensee to practice in accordance with the licensed legal entity.

Initial Approval: The approval granted by the Ministry to the applicant to begin establishing one of the entities specified in these rules.

License: A license granted by the Ministry to the applicant after fulfilling the requirements specified in these rules and related regulations, authorizing them to practice the activities for which they have been licensed; in accordance with these rules.

Senior Management: The administrative positions represented by the President and members of the Board of Directors, the Managing Member, and the Chief Executive Officer, and any other positions defined by the competent agency.

The purpose of these rules is to regulate the licensing for the practice of recruitment activities and the provision of labor services, as well as the supervisory and regulatory activities exercised by the Ministry over the licensees.

These rules apply to any person licensed to engage in one or more of the recruitment activities specified in these rules or any other recruitment activity approved by the Ministry.

The Ministry specifies in the license the activity or activities that the licensee is permitted to engage in, and it may restrict the license with specific conditions that define the geographical area in which the licensed activities may be conducted. The licensee shall not engage in any activity that is not authorized or that conflicts with the conditions of the license.

A person whose application has previously been rejected may not submit a new license application unless one year has passed from the date of the rejection.

The ministry has the right to inquire about the applicant with governmental or private entities inside or outside the Kingdom to verify the accuracy of the submitted data and documents.