Dubai unemployment on rise

Video: Unemployment rising in Dubai

 

 
 Emiratis face rise in unemployment 
 

In an effort to address the global economic slowdown, Dubai’s government recently declared it illegal to fire an Emirati while retaining a foreigner for the same job.

But locals say some companies are violating the decree, and Emiratis are increasingly finding themselves unemployed.

Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports.