Rules that would have obliged bosses to pay their workers’ wages promptly was unanimously rejected...

“Expats in Bahrain work long hours and... don’t have time to open accounts, which also requires papers and their passports, which they willingly hand over to their sponsors for protection...,” [said the Shura human rights committee chairman ]...

Services committee chairwoman Dr Jihad Al Fadhel said opening accounts was easy and doesn’t take time.

Shura legislative and legal affairs committee chairwoman Dalal Al Zayed said the CBB obligation to all banks to open accounts even for the lowly-paid has made the rule easier to implement.