His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, issued a decree establishing a specialized court in the consideration of labor cases under the name of Abu Dhabi Labor Court. . The decision also includes the referral of all cases and appeals currently before the labor courts of the Abu Dhabi Courts to the new court, with the exception of the reserved cases and appeals.
The decisions of the Abu Dhabi Labor Court include all cases brought against or against workers, including disputes related to auxiliary workers, as well as the execution of judgments and judicial orders issued by various Chambers of the Court. The first degree, judgments and decisions issued by the enforcement judges and provisional and expedited provisions.
Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, Counselor Yousef Al-Abri, stressed the keenness of the State leadership to create a legislative and judicial infrastructure to regulate the labor market in the country, in the interests of the parties to the contractual work relationship under the rule of law and in line with international guarantees governing human rights and economic competitiveness standards.
He added that the decision of His Highness the President of the Department comes within the strategic priority of the Judicial Department to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of judicial processes and to ensure comprehensive access to services in order to achieve a speedy justice. He pointed out his directives to work according to an integrated program to facilitate workers' access to justice and to obtain their rights guaranteed by law. In line with international human rights standards, in recognition of His Highness's role in the renaissance of the State at all economic and service levels.
Al-Abri explained that the Abu Dhabi Labor Court includes the Trial Chambers in both its partial and total branches, the Appeals and Enforcement Chambers, the Labor Day Service, the Disputes Chamber for Assistants, and the dismissal of one or more judges of the Labor Court to hear urgent matters in the context of labor disputes, The right to issue orders for petitions, time orders and performance orders relating to the jurisdiction of the Court, whatever their value.
On the other hand, Abri confirmed a subsequent decision appointing Abdullah Fares Al Nuaimi as Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Workers' Court, stressing that the new court was based at the headquarters of the former Abu Dhabi Labor Chambers in the city of Mohammed bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi.
The terms of reference of the Abu Dhabi Labor Court include all cases brought by or against workers.