Lecturers confirmed during a workshop organized by the General Pension and Social Insurance Authority that registration of citizens working in any of the entities covered by the federal pension law is mandatory, based on what is stipulated in the law, which obliges all work in the public and private sectors, which are subject to its provisions, to register and participate. The applicant must be at least 18 years of age and not more than 60 years of age, and be fit to work when appointed under a medical report from the approved medical authority.
They pointed out that the law entrusted it with the responsibility of registration, and the payment of subscription for it, starting from the date of joining the work, and reinforced this responsibility by imposing additional fines in the case of failure to register and subscribe for them, and the procedural steps to apply to the service through the Authority's website, explaining each The operations of the insured registration application from the beginning of his enrollment until his registration.
The workshop was attended by more than 150 employers in the public and private sectors, where they focused on reviewing the most important e-services, including registration services, which included the registration of a new employer, registration of a new insured, and the registration service of Gulf nationals working in the State, within the system of extending insurance protection. The training workshop on the mechanism of accomplishing the previous service period, purchasing the legal service period, the end of service (disbursement of insurance dues), and how to supply subscriptions through electronic collection system (FTS) and other services.
The Authority, through holding awareness workshops to train e-services, aims to inform the employers about the latest updates on e-services, in addition to identifying and training new employers in order to overcome the challenges that enable them to achieve services according to the best standards. Quality and professionalism.
The lecturers pointed out that to be subject to the employer under the umbrella of the Authority should have at least one Emirati or Gulf employees, and generally subject to the provisions of the law employers in the federal and local government, regardless of the emirate of the workplace, with the exception of the local and private sector in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi The local sector in the emirate of Sharjah means the federal sector, public authorities, institutions and companies, and banks to which the federal government or local government entities request the emirate's government, and the private sector means any natural or legal person using Workers who are citizens for wages of any kind.
The lecturers stressed the mandatory insurance of Gulf nationals working in the country, according to the system of extending insurance protection, which is concerned with extending the insurance umbrella to GCC citizens working outside their countries, according to their regulations.