Ministry of Labour warns firms against cheating workers

ABU DHABI – The Ministry of Labour (MoL) has warned companies in the capital against using fraudulent ways for calculating the remuneration of workers such as overtime for working on official holidays, according to a senior official at the MoL.

According to Qaseem Jameel, Deputy Director of the Inspection Department at the MoL, “If an employee works on official holidays like Eid Al Adha and the day payment is Dh100, the firm should pay the worker Dh150, in addition to the overtime,” added Jameel.

Moreover, workers have the right to take compensatory off in lieu of extra work on official holidays, he said, adding that the same rule applied to all the expatriates living in the country as there is no discrimation on religious grounds.

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Confusion over rules for NOC requirement

By Wafa Issa, Staff ReporterPublished: December 02, 2007, 01:07

Dubai: Ambiguity prevails on the rules for issuing the No Objection Certificate (NOC) when changing sponsors, say public relations officers.

It seems that there is a new rule at the Ministry of Labour everyday and no clear mechanism is in place on how to implement it, said Eyad Nassif, Public Relations Officer (PRO) at Fujairah National Construction.

"We as PROs are lost when it comes to these new decisions, especially with regard to the NOC rule as there is a lot of confusion on what is required. There should be a reference point at the ministry that provides us with the necessary information but it is simply not there," said Nassif.

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