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Pannesma Co. Ltd. An Atheeb Group company: provides manpower to Royal Saudi Air Force and MODA
Pannesma Co. Ltd. An Atheeb Group company: provides manpower to Royal Saudi Air Force and MODA

If you are a Saudi national or citizen reading this and you think any of this makes Saudi Arabia look bad, it is because we are experienced a sub-human treatment in the hands of Pannesma Co. Ltd. Based on how we have been treated, it is the view of former employee and not anyone else’s. I am doing nothing but giving people like myself, information to help them in reducing the problems they WILL encounter working for Pannesma Co. Ltd. If someone has placed this information online and it was available for me prior to joining this company, I would have not left my previous job or traveled to Saudi Arabia to be grossly disappointed and have to pay my repatriation in going back home on my dime.

Pannesma Co. Ltd. is a subsidiary of Atheeb group which is wholly owned Saudi Arabian company and run by a member of the Royal Saudi Family (Abdulaziz Bin Ahmed Bin Abdulaziz). Pannesma Co. Ltd. is also the local representative for the US Defense company Raytheon and a French Defense company Thales Systems. The company inherited a contract that a previous defunct company called KOLSMAN left behind. KOLSMAN misappropriated millions of dollars of Royal Saudi Air Force funds and run away with the salaries of thousands of Saudis, Philippines, Indians, Pakistanis and Americans. To this day, their salaries and benefit dues are still not paid and are languishing in the Saudi Arabian courts and labor department. The salaries and benefits of more than 1500 employees working for the Royal Saudi Air Force and Ministry of Defense were not paid. Literally many employees left or retired without seeing a dime of their hard earned wages and other benefits.

Now, I heard Pannesma Co. Ltd an Atheeb group company have won the follow on contract and are actively recruiting employees from the Philippines, India, and Pakistan and from Western countries. This is a piece of advice for those of you who are thinking about, or are already on your way to work for Pannesma Co. LTD in Saudi Arabia.

Advice for the Western worker: •	The company will house you in a city more than 160KM away from your workplace and they will not compensate for this intolerable drive back and forth. You will be driving 300KM every day five days a week with no penny of compensation for that.

•	The company will not provide schooling for your children. If you have children forget working for them. You cannot afford the exuberant private schools. If you have to work for them plan on not seeing your family at least 11 months of the year.

Advice for Third Country Nationals TCN (Philippines, Indians and Pakistanis and Bangladeshis)

•	The Pannesma Co. Ltd. will send you for extended period of time to work remote sites; they will not compensate your for your travels. The money they pay is not enough for food let alone hotel.

Pannesma Co. Ltd not giving NOC letter: •	Pannesma Co. Ltd. at the end of the contract does not provide the required NOC (no objection letter) and without it, you are a modern day slave. You cannot be hired by another company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia without getting a proper NOC letter at the end of your contract. Pannesma will have an answer for that; they will give you a follow on contract, take it or leave the country for one year or more.

Late payments: •	Occasionally the company will not pay the benefits at the end of the contract and travel expenses on time.

Housing for Third Country Nationals: •	The leaving condition is absolutely horrendous. The sewage will be seeping into your accommodations; the police will raid your residences in the middle of the night in search of pornographic material. Or worse you will be given a run-down apartment because someone paid kick-backs and you cannot move out for the rest of your contract.

If you will be happy with that, go ahead and work for them, if not you should consider signing with before you go with such a company and feel sorry that you did. Good luck and God bless all.