«Emirates Today» monitored fraudulent facilities .. and a fine of 20 thousand dirhams for each violation

Companies that re-employ citizens working in their ranks to circumvent “nationalization”

«Human Resources» organized a guidance campaign on its official pages.

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"Emirates Today", through the testimonies of officials and experts in the employment sector, has monitored a number of companies that meet the conditions of mandatory Emiratisation rates, which do not prefer hiring national cadres and are looking for cheap labor, and then resort to tricks and methods for "sham resettlement", and manipulation of decisions and procedures that obligated to employ citizens.

Among this category are companies that re-employ nationals who already work for them, with the aim of transferring them to the “Nafis” initiative to ensure that the required Emiratisation numbers are met, while other institutions (governmental and private) circumvent the Emiratisation file by contracting with external companies that provide them with employees to work for them by a system “Outsourcing” to ensure that its official records are free from the presence of expatriate employees in proportions greater than that of citizens.

According to the monitoring, the most prominent forms and methods of "sham Emiratisation" are also represented in the fact that some companies appoint citizens to "formal jobs", in which the working hours are a few hours per week, simply for their inclusion in the Emiratisation schedules provided by these companies to the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation.

For its part, the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation warned the establishments and institutions registered with it within the private sector employers against committing a violation of “sham Emiratisation” by practicing any manipulation of data to circumvent the decisions regulating the mechanism and obligatory employment of Emirati cadres with them, pointing out that the warning of the danger of The practice of “sham resettlement” and its punishment, stems from the keenness to limit any negative practices that may affect the settlement system and the efforts made to achieve the national goals in this regard, and in response to the establishments that try to manipulate them.

The Ministry defined, in an indicative campaign, launched on its official pages on social media platforms, “mock localization”, as: “A citizen is registered in the company’s registry with a formal job of fictitious representation, including employment without real work, just to achieve the formally required goals, or re-employment of citizens on Their head of work is in the same facility with the aim and intent to manipulate the data and obtain the benefits associated with that,” stressing that fines are imposed against companies on which the “mock localization” is proven, amounting to 20,000 dirhams for each citizen.

The ministry stated that if reports of field visits to the sites of establishments in the private sector prove that the employer has deliberately and fraudulently done fictitious resettlement, he will be referred to the Public Prosecution to take action in accordance with the legislation adopted in the country.

Last May, the UAE government adopted a decision obligating employers of the private sector, which include 50 workers or more, to allocate 2% of their skilled jobs annually to citizens, so that the percentage reaches 10% of the total employees of these facilities within five years, and in the event of a breach of the facilities. By adhering to the Emiratisation percentages and violating the decision, monthly contributions will be applied to the violating facility in the amount of 6000 dirhams for each job that should have been filled by a citizen who was not appointed, which will be applied starting from January 2023 through the Ministry’s digital systems, provided that the value of the monthly contributions increases upwards at a rate of 1000 dirhams for each general.

Citizens Employment Governance

The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation confirmed that it has taken a number of measures to ensure the governance of the package of decisions issued by the UAE government regarding the Emiratisation file, and to follow up their implementation in the labor market in the country, the most important of which is the development of measurement indicators to follow up the rates of employment of Emirati cadres in the private sector.

He said that the incentives approved by the Council of Ministers to encourage private sector establishments to resettle, will not enter into force until after the establishment's commitment to appointing citizens, liberating work contracts, ensuring continuity of work and maintaining the prescribed Emiratisation rates, stressing that the ministry will take strict measures towards fictitious Emiratisation.

She stated that the full implementation of government decisions related to Emiratisation will provide many job opportunities in private sector establishments, explaining that if one citizen is employed in establishments employing 50 or more workers, more than 15,000 jobs will be created for citizens in the labor market annually.

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