The interactive “Tawasul” platform, affiliated with the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation, outlines five procedures that employers in the private sector must follow to amend the wages of a non-citizen worker, stressing that these procedures are only carried out with the agreement of both parties of work (the worker and the employer), in enterprises affected by the procedures The country's precautionary measures to limit the outbreak of the new Corona virus.
According to the platform, which is concerned with initiatives and services for human resources affairs and their trademarks, on its official account on the social networking site «Twitter», the five procedures included the signing of an appendix of an additional temporary contract between the parties (the employer and the worker), provided that the appendix ends with the end of its term or period of validity The decision, whichever is closer, is renewed by agreement of the parties, and two copies of the contract are prepared, one with the worker and the second with the employer, and the employer is obligated to provide the contract copy to the ministry upon request.
The Ministry confirmed that it sought to regulate the relationship between employers and workers in times of crisis and emergencies, by issuing a unified version of the appendix of an additional temporary work contract, to be used by the contracting parties after agreeing on the future mechanism in the contractual relationship between them, explaining that this copy of the contract came in implementation of the initiative « Early leave », which was launched by the Ministry in cooperation and coordination with the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Civil Aviation Authority, and the National Authority for Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Management, with the aim of empowering those who wish to reside working in the private sector from Return to their countries, during the period of precautionary measures taken at the country level, to prevent and limit the spread of the emerging corona virus.
The appendix to the temporary overtime contract begins with the identification data for the day, the name of the establishment, its number and the emirate affiliated with it, and its representative who is referred to as the “first party”, in addition to the name of the worker, his work permit number and nationality, provided that he is referred to as the “second party”.
The preamble to the contract stipulated that “the first party has indicated its desire to sign an additional temporary supplement to the employment contract with the second party, and has agreed to one of the three options, which are paid leave, early leave without pay, and temporary reduced wages.”
According to the contract, the first clause stipulated that “the previous preamble is considered an integral part of the provisional supplement, since the period of the appendix starts from the date of signing it from both parties, until the end of the date specified in the previous preamble,” while the second clause included a declaration from the first party (The employer) states that he has informed the second party (worker) in detail of the items mentioned in this temporary annex, and he also acknowledges that the second party signed it without coercion.
The third item is concerned with the approval of the second party (the worker) that he has examined in detail the items mentioned in the provisional annex, and he learned of the provisions contained therein, and also acknowledges that he accepted and signed the provisional annex within the state, while the fourth item is concerned with editing the supplement in two copies, so that each party has one copy of it And the first party (the employer) is obliged to provide the copy to the Ministry in the event that he is required to do so, while the fifth clause states that “if the two parties agree to amend or extend the temporary attachment, a new temporary attachment must be concluded.”