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Labour Law in
the UAE
The Federal Law No. (8) of 1980, or UAE labor law, a comprehensive law
regulating all aspects of labor relations between employers and employees. It
is also the law of Advanced and balanced explain all the rights and obligations
of employers and employees and achieve many benefits for workers and employees.
Date back the development of the first labor law in the United Arab Emirates to
1980, and has been subsequently amended by Federal Law No. (24) of 1981 and the
Federal Law No. (15) of 1985 and the Federal Law (12) for the year 1986. It is
the law in 193 articles and covers all aspects of labor relations from the
rights of employees (working hours, holidays, end of service benefits, workers'
compensation, etc.) and the end of employment contracts and settlement of labor
disputes and rules of discipline and safety of workers, protection and labor
inspection and others.
Material law
Article 1
The first article of the labor law definitions of the terms contained in the
law, such as the employer and the worker and the facility and the employment
contract and temporary work, agricultural work and continuous service, pay and
basic wage and work-related injuries and intended constituency work.
Articles 9 and 10
Work is a right for the citizens of the United Arab Emirates, and in the case
of non-availability of citizens, workers are given priority in employment of
Arab workers and then workers of other nationalities.
Article 20
Events may not be employed by both sexes who are under the age of fifteen.
Article 24
Events may not be employed in hazardous work or burdensome and harmful to
health.
Article 27
Women may not at night during the period of the tenth evening until seven in
the morning.
Article 32
Pay women equal pay to men if they are carrying out the same work.
Article 37
Worker may be employed on probation for a period not exceeding six months, and
the employer may during this period dispensing service without warning and end
of service benefits. A worker may not be on probation more than once in a
single employer.
Article 38
Have an employment contract for a definite or indefinite. And if the contract
is checked, it is not permissible to exceed the duration of 4 years and can be
renewed upon agreement of the parties once or more for other similar or less.
Article 65
The maximum normal working hours for adult workers is 8 hours per day or 48
hours a week. And may in the case of businesses, hotels, restaurants and
receivership and other similar professions extend this period to nine hours a
day by the Minister of Labour. The hours are reduced to normal working hours
during the holy month of Ramadan.
Article 67
If circumstances require the employment of more workers than normal working
hours are for the increase and additional time factor are paid him equal pay
return to normal working hours plus an increase of not less than 25 percent of
that wage.
Article 68
If summoned working conditions that the working group and additional time
between the ninth and fourth evening dawn worker is entitled to overtime wages
normal working hours plus an increase of not less than 50 percent of that wage.
Article 70
Friday is the weekly day of rest for all workers with the exception of daily
wage workers. If circumstances warrant a worker in this day must be compensated
another rest day or pay the basic salary for normal working hours plus an
increase of not less than 50 percent of that wage.
Article 74
Workers deserve official leave with full pay on the following occasions: one
day of the Islamic New Year and New Year's Day and the Isra and Mi'raj and the
birth of Prophet Mohammad and the national festival and two days of Eid
al-Fitr, three days of Eid al-Adha and the day of Arafah.
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