03-03-2009, 08:36 PM
Dear Member,
News from UAE
This is why it was good news, two days ago, to hear from an official in the Ministry of Labour that the government is considering a review of the six-month ban imposed on anyone who leaves their job. At present the law requires anyone who has left an employer to leave the country for six months before finding alternative work, unless the employee is in certain defined categories of managerial employment, and if the employer has no objection to him or her finding alternative employment.
The purpose of the six-month ban was to stop employees coming to the UAE at the expense of one company and then jumping around all sorts of employers. However, these controls on the labour market served well when the economy was booming. Recession requires a different attitude and people who lose their jobs should be able to find another visa so that they can stay in the country and find work with other companies fairly quickly. Not many people can survive without work for more than a few weeks, since bills such as rent, school fees, or savings plans all eat up money very fast.
The UAE has a skilled and motivated work force. The government needs to help keep the workforce here during the times of recession so that the UAEâs companies are ready for the recovery when it comes.
http//www.gulfnews.com/opinion/editorial_opinion/nation/10290927.html
News from UAE
This is why it was good news, two days ago, to hear from an official in the Ministry of Labour that the government is considering a review of the six-month ban imposed on anyone who leaves their job. At present the law requires anyone who has left an employer to leave the country for six months before finding alternative work, unless the employee is in certain defined categories of managerial employment, and if the employer has no objection to him or her finding alternative employment.
The purpose of the six-month ban was to stop employees coming to the UAE at the expense of one company and then jumping around all sorts of employers. However, these controls on the labour market served well when the economy was booming. Recession requires a different attitude and people who lose their jobs should be able to find another visa so that they can stay in the country and find work with other companies fairly quickly. Not many people can survive without work for more than a few weeks, since bills such as rent, school fees, or savings plans all eat up money very fast.
The UAE has a skilled and motivated work force. The government needs to help keep the workforce here during the times of recession so that the UAEâs companies are ready for the recovery when it comes.
http//www.gulfnews.com/opinion/editorial_opinion/nation/10290927.html
