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المملكة: Urgent: From “technician” to “engineer”.. A ​​judicial ruling that does justice to graduates and eliminates differences


The Court of Appeal issued A final judicial ruling obliges the competent authority to classify graduates of is called «Graduates of the Bachelor of Technical Engineering

The court confirmed in its ruling that adding any description or description to the job title of graduates of the Bachelor of Technical Engineering reduces their professional status and creates an unfair comparison. Justified, which explicitly contradicts the Royal Order issued in 1409 AH, which clearly stipulated that graduates of both tracks be equal in job benefits and rights.

The judicial department clarified in its precise merits that the new system for practicing engineering professions, even if it referred the authority for classification to the competent authority, did not cancel or amend the previous royal orders, which legally requires combining and integrating the texts instead of disrupting one of them, to ensure the stability of the legal centers. For graduates.

Classification of graduates of technical programs

The final ruling was based on a series of official correspondence and minutes of previous meetings between the concerned authorities, which had previously concluded in a technical and regulatory agreement requiring the adoption of the classification of graduates of technical programs into the category of “engineer”, which strengthens the authority of proper regulatory application and weakens any subsequent justifications for abandoning this classification.

The court ruled to cancel the previous preliminary ruling, and the ruling again to cancel the decision of the party that abstained from the classification, Considering that its insistence on adding discriminatory descriptions represents a violation of the principle of equality and justice guaranteed by the regulations, and a violation of the professional rights of a wide segment of national competencies.

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