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Faisal Mohammed Al-Shamry

May 23 2022

Crisis management is an advanced science that requires complex expertise, unique skills, and professional capabilities, mixed with advanced science, capabilities and analytical data, with basic pillars of success, including the presence of Golden Commander, and operational management of the event by the competent authorities, and includes stages and life cycle of crisis management monitoring Early, assessing risks and matching them with what is in the risk register, response and crisis management, which is what the national teams achieved a globally distinguished level that no other Arab country has achieved, and then restore the normal situation, and then review opportunities for improvement, education, updating plans and building capacities according to Gap analysis.

The stage of recovery and restoring the normal situation is a very important stage and complements the national programs launched by the leadership, including the national program to support labor market stability in the private sector.

The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation, in coordination with the National Authority for Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Management, launched the national program to ensure business continuity in the private sector, in light of the preventive measures and precautionary measures taken at the state level, within the federal and local government work system to confront the pandemic and limit its spread.

Ministerial Resolution No. 279 of 2020 was issued regarding the stability of employment in private sector establishments, during the period of application of precautionary measures to limit the spread of the Corona virus, to regulate the contractual relationship between employees and employers, to set some procedures that companies affected by the precautionary measures should take into account, in organizing its relationship with the employee.

This decision applies to expatriate workers residing in the UAE and who work in private sector facilities, and does not apply to citizens working in the private sector.

Among the most prominent points contained in the decision: the gradual in the actions taken by private establishments, in agreement with the employee, according to the following steps: applying the remote work system, granting him paid leave, granting him leave without pay, and temporarily reducing his wages during the aforementioned period.

In this case, the company is obligated to conclude an additional temporary supplement to the employment contract between the two parties, according to the form attached to the ministerial decision, provided that it ends with the expiration of its period, or the validity period of this decision, whichever is closer, or permanently reducing its wage, provided that the establishments that wish to reduce the wage The permanent non-national worker, by applying for the service of amending the data of a work contract, to obtain the approval of the Ministry, in accordance with the procedures in force.

Some of the important improvement opportunities to enable the restoration of the normal situation are obligating the authorities to return salaries and allowances for employees in the private sector to what they were before the pandemic, according to a clear timetable, as well as holding the authorities that reduced salaries, without affecting their revenues or operations, for the reasons for exploiting this circumstance. Including some companies that achieved unprecedented profits, as a result of the rise in oil prices.

Some boards of directors have enjoyed the benefits of cutbacks and higher returns, while employees have experienced salary cuts, bonus payments, and bonuses. Every rule has exceptions.

As well as scrutinizing cases of reducing citizens’ salaries, obligating the companies concerned to compensate them, and discussing the development of a dedicated fund from the concerned, tax or even humanitarian authorities, to compensate and assist the most affected humanitarian cases, such as workers in the travel, tourism and aviation sectors, where some of the debtors resorted to leave the state, with Their attempts to work or to schedule their debts with the banks falter.

We may say that the number of these cases is few, but it is important to establish an institutional framework to restore the normal situation, and our leadership represented by His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, (a good year has been enacted), upon which the nation’s institutions and people have relied: “Do not cripple them.” The homeland of humanity.

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