Saudis share 2-month salary bonus with cleaning staff

In a unusual and generous gesture, Saudi employees shared their two month salary bonus with 250 cleaning workers. Once the gift was received, employees of the Al-Rawda municipality in Riyadh, organized a special party in which they shared the bonus with cleaning workers of the company contracted to do maintenance work in the city. Workers received their share in closed envelopes, which were handed out to all the employees without any discrimination of religion or race. “We wish you all the best in this land of Islam,” Khaled Al-Sayyar, Al-Rawda municipality chief, told workers after passing out the envelopes. “This gesture from the Saudi employees is also a recognition of your sincere effort to clean the neighborhoods you were assigned to take care of. We have seen remarkable cleanliness there,” Al-Sayyar said. According to Al-Sayyar, municipality employees wanted to show the generous spirit of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and express their gratitude for the important work the cleaning staff does for the general well-being. Though he addressed the cleaning staff in Arabic, the speech was translated into a number of Asian languages spoken by the workers. The celebration, conducted outdoors in front of the municipality, was attended by the employees and all the passers-by. -Arab news