“Al -Bonas” is a legal commitment to the winning companies

The Acting Director General of the Ministry of Labor, Hamid Rashid bin Dimas Al -Suwaidi, affirmed that companies and establishments may not deprive any of their employees of the financial advantages that they receive other than the salaries and allowances stipulated A regular procedure within the institution, such as commissions, bonus, and others, explaining that the worker, as long as he obtained these privileges periodically, becomes one of his rights as part of the wage he receives and the employer may not deprive him of them, if the company’s business and projects are not affected by the degree that he forced to do so.

An employee in one of the financial brokerage companies listed in the Abu Dhabi Securities and Commodities Market was submitted to the Director General during the activities of the open day at the Ministry’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi yesterday, to demand that the company be obligated to provide him with documents proving his ownership of shares that the company had allocated to its employees and amounting to 15 thousand shares.

The Director General of the Ministry called for the employee to quickly go to the Labor Relations Department to submit an official complaint to obtain his dues, and he said that the ministry will investigate the complaint and if it turns out that the company did not commit to returning the dues and did not respond to the ministry, it will be transferred to the judiciary, whose rulings become mandatory for all. Bin Dimas called on companies not to make the global crisis an excuse to detract from the rights of workers and the benefits granted to them, stressing the permanent commitment of the Ministry of Labor to preserve the rights of workers in all circumstances and not to allow any employer to manipulate them.

He added that ending the services of one of the workers of any company to file a complaint against it, is an arbitrary chapter in which the labor court requires compensation for the worker with three months, in addition to any other dues, in addition to transferring his sponsorship to another company.

On the other hand, Bin Dimas revealed that the Ministry of Labor agreed to extend a collective work permit for one of the contracting companies for another month, so that the company can complete the rest of its projects, after submitting the company’s salaries delivery statements to ensure the company’s commitment to pay salaries on its dates, and said that the Ministry of The work agreed in the last days to extend some collective work permits after this measure was not previously authorized, in line with the prevailing economic developments inside and outside the country, which prompted some companies to postpone projects or expedite their implementation or replace other projects and others. Bin Dimas also referred a general surgery of Asian nationality working in a hospital in Abu Dhabi to the Labor Relations Department in the Misfah area to investigate her claim that she did not receive her salary for a period of six consecutive months.

And he agreed to authorize the extraction of a work card for the profession of a general manager for an expatriate who does not hold a university degree, but he holds a member of the membership and experience from the Legal Institute for Building, which gives his membership to those who hold higher qualifications than the university degree. He also agreed to issue a work permit for an English lecture on her mother’s sponsorship, despite not obtaining the teacher’s leave that is required to obtain it before working in the teaching profession in private schools, given the requirements of the lecturer’s profession differ from her counterpart in the teacher’s profession required by the Ministry of Education.