Salary compatibility with the skill level is a condition for workers to move before two years have passed

An investor requesting a work permit for others

Labor transfer procedures include specific conditions.

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Yesterday, the Ministry of Labor, during its reception of the "Open Day" reviewers, rejected an application for a work permit for a private facility, submitted by an investor of the nationality of an Arab country.

She said that the ministry's procedures do not allow investors to work in any other facility, with or without pay, while a worker who holds an unexpired work card can be allowed to be a partner or an investor in another facility.

The ministry also refused to issue a new work permit for an engineer in a contracting and construction company in Abu Dhabi, after his services were terminated from the company, due to the end of work on the project in which he worked.

The committee said that the controls set by the procedures for the transfer of labor that were announced about a month ago, include specific controls and criteria for the transfer of the worker, in the event that he does not complete a two-year period with the employer, including that the salary he will receive in the company he intends to move to meets the conditions.

In the present case, the engineer’s profession belongs to the first skill level, out of the three announced skill levels, and therefore the salary he will receive in the new facility must not be less than 12 thousand dirhams to allow him to move, which was not achieved in this case.

In the other two cases, the salary must not be less than 7,000 dirhams for the second skill level, and not less than 5,000 dirhams for the third level, to approve the transfer.

The activities of the "Open Day" witnessed a number of cases of cancellation of workers by establishments, for various reasons related to the volume of work within some companies. However, the ministry refused to authorize the transfer of canceled workers' cards because they did not meet the condition that the salary corresponds to the skill level.

The “Open Day” committee indicated that there is no exception to the conditions announced, which relate to the transfer of workers, stressing that the requests for transfer of sponsorship that were submitted before the entry into force of the new labor transfer procedures, will be completed in accordance with the old procedures, with the obligation to pay the old fees.

The committee referred a request submitted by a company working in the maritime field to study, requesting that it be exempted from the requirement to provide housing for those who work with it in projects implemented on land, after refusing to obtain new work permits for the company due to the existence of affiliated projects that are implemented by land.

This requires the provision of a sufficient number of housing that conforms to the requirements of the Ministry of Labor, after excluding the company from the housing requirement for workers whose nature of work requires them to be constantly present at sea.

The Ministry referred to the Labor Inspection Department a request from a worker who does not belong to any of the three skill levels, who wants to move to another facility on the grounds that the facility in which he is currently working is suspended due to financial and administrative problems.

The committee indicated that the Labor Inspection Department will, based on the worker's complaint, verify the existence of the company and its financial condition.

In the event that the company is closed or bankrupt, the worker will be allowed to transfer his residence to any other facility, given that this case is one of the cases in which he is allowed to move to another facility, despite the lack of completion of a two-year period with the first facility, and the lack of skill level conditions, The salary corresponds to the skill level.

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