ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the national approaches to sustainable enterprise in Saudi Arabia. It includes key information about the priority issues, trends, and government policies as well as best-practice case studies of sustainable enterprise in Saudi Arabia. Often shrouded in mystery, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is home to both of the holiest of Muslim sites, Makkah and Madinah, and the world's largest energy company, Saudi Aramco. Saudi Arabia has ratified six International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions and enacted its first comprehensive environmental legislation in 2001. Part of a region notorious for its institutionalized ethnic and nationality-based discrimination, the Kingdom has not signed both ILO conventions around the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining – both of which are illegal in the country. There's no officially enforced minimum wage, or specific discrimination or whistle-blowing legislation.
