She confirmed that the flexibility to determine the weekend and the number of its days is available to private sector companies
“Human Resources and Emiratisation” stresses commitment to a maximum of 144 hours of work in 3 weeks
The Uniform Labor Rules Law sets a new precedent in the UAE labor market.
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The Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Awar, stated that the Federal Decree-Law on regulating the work relationship obligates the employee or worker to a specified number of working hours, a maximum of 48 hours per week, and not more than 144 hours in three weeks, explaining that the employee or worker who performed a number of Working hours more than 48 hours in a week must be less than this number of hours in another week.
He stressed that the decision on weekly holidays, which will be applied in government agencies, calculating two and a half days as a weekly holiday, will not affect the attraction of national cadres to the private sector, as the working hours will be balanced between the two sectors, as the weekly working hours will increase in the government sector, which has become larger than the private sector. In addition, a decree-law on labor relations in the private sector set the minimum one-day weekend in the private sector, and allowed employers to set the date of this holiday according to the nature of their work, and therefore the current trend is to reduce the gap between the two sectors, in light of A new legislative system, updates to legislation, and flexibility in terms of keeping pace with changes, so that we are proactive and strive to strengthen this system.
Al-Awar stated that the Law of Uniform Rules for Work in the Emirates is a new precedent in the UAE labor market, as it unites work in the federal government sector and the private sector in a number of work procedures and the system that governs the relationship between the employee and the employer, and aims to eliminate all differences and aspects that are considered discrimination. at work.
He added that flexibility in determining the weekend and the number of its days is available to private sector companies, pointing out that many companies apply this flexibility in a positive way, as they see it as an opportunity to organize their work in order to achieve their competitiveness in the market.
Al-Awar pointed out that the flexibility of combining more than one type of work (full, partial, temporary and flexible) is available to the employee and companies with a legislative framework that establishes this, whether the “Unified Rules of Work in the Emirates” or the “Law Regulating Work Relationship”, with the condition of the maximum number of hours in Three weeks, as the worker is not allowed to work more than the maximum (144 hours in three weeks), to ensure that this flexibility is not abused, to preserve the health of the workforce, and to ensure that it continues to work efficiently.
Regarding the weekly holidays, the Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation confirmed that the federal government issued this decision after an extensive study on the location of the national economy and its integration into global economies. Its decisions are to be compatible with the decision of the Federal Government, while the Government of Sharjah added an additional part to the decision, but its procedures are compatible with it.
He explained that the current situation in the private sector gives the worker an hour of rest for prayer and for any other rituals, because the work system has not changed in this part, as the worker has the right to have an hour of rest during the daily working hours.
He pointed out that the Federal Decree-Law on regulating the work relationship and the Federal Human Resources Law are fully consistent with the Unified Labor Rules Law, in terms of regulating the relationship between the employee and the employer in the government, including vacations, end-of-service benefits, and others, and this law is a new precedent in the market Work in the UAE, as it aims to unify the federal government and private sectors within certain limits and the system that governs the employee and the employer, and aims to eliminate all differences that were considered discrimination between the two sectors, thus enhancing the presence of Emirati cadres in the labor market.
• The Law of Labor Relations in the Private Sector sets a minimum one-day weekend.
Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Awar:
• «The decision of the weekends will not affect the attraction of national cadres to the private sector».
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