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![]() Ghobash hails the cabinet support to Wage Protection System
Posted on 17/04/2010
Minister of Labour HE Saqr Ghobash hailed support extended by the leadership and members of the cabinet towards the efforts of the Ministry of Labour to establish a safe and stable work environment in the country.
The minister was commenting on the classification of the Wage Protecting System (WPS) the Labour Ministry introduced as one of the most important initiatives and achievements of the UAE government during the last four years. UAE became the first country in the region to introduce
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 Women to get UAE visa rule boost
Posted on 12/04/2010
The Ministry of Labour plans to relax transfer of workers between companies to lessen dependency on foreign recruitment, a top official said on Sunday.
"A draft decision was submitted to the Cabinet to reduce fees for transfer of workers between companies to increase the productivity of the local work-force and thus reduce our dependency on foreign recruitment," Saqr Ghobash Saeed Ghobash, Minister of Labour, told Gulf News.
Ghobash said a study of the current fees for certain measures
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![]() Emirates Mobile Hospital inaugurates first mobile unit for workers health care
Posted on 22/03/2010
The Emirates Mobile Hospital inaugurated the first mobile medical unit for occupational health and environmental safety.
The unit includes a number of clinics providing health services equipped with diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive measures for workers in their various locations.
H.E. Khadim Al Dari, Chairman of the Emirates World Humanitarian Mobile Hospital Working Committee stressed the importance of periodic inspection of workers to discover various diseases in their early stages
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![]() UAE issues worker's rights and duties booklet
Posted on 08/02/2010
A multilingual booklet "The Worker: Rights and Duties” was released by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior.
Lt. Colonel Salah Al Gul, Director of Office of Culture of Respect for Law, the first worker's pocket book will be issued in six languages: Arabic, English, Filipino (Tagalog), Persian, Chinese and Urdu, and would be distributed to all federal government departments, concerned NGOs, labour accommodations, and media outlets.
He indicated that the booklet
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 Labour Minister: GCC labour market true reflection of economic development and policies
Posted on 04/02/2010
The pattern of development adopted in the Gulf region is the focus of all negative and positive developments in the labour market, said H.E Saqr Ghobash, Minister of Labour and Chairman of the National Media Council.
Ghobash warned that unless faults in the current development pattern are fixed, the challenges posed by nationalisation of the GCC labour market would always be questioned.
The Minister's remarks came in a paper he presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the Emirates Centre
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![]() Diplomatic Corps lauds UAE for Workers' Rights protection
Posted on 27/01/2010
The Diplomatic Corps has lauded United Arab Emirates for its role in protecting rights of the migrant workers offering them the best available milieu and opportunities to work in a most elegant manner.
"UAE is among the civilised nations that protect the rights of migrant workers and is a major destination for everyone who travel to work, It is a country with values and a strong traditions that respects the rights and freedoms of individuals. The country is also distinguished as a
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 Saqr Ghobash: WPS is subject to experimentation
Posted on 10/01/2010
Minister of Labour HE Saqr Ghobash said that a large number of companies have adhered to the Wage Protection System (WPS) that came into force since last December. At the same time, the system cannot be considered errorless and ideal, the minister pointed out.
WPS is a UAE initiative to safeguard punctual payment of wages of the worker's in the private sector via transfers through selected financial institutions authorised and regulated by the government.
Ghobash told 'Al-Khaleej'
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![]() Labour Official: Unpaid workers have the right to change their employer
Posted on 05/01/2010
If a worker does not receive his wages for a period of two months, he is free to transfer his sponsorship to another employer without the consent of his original employer, a senior official at the Labour Ministry said.
Speaking shortly after the 'Weekly Open Meet' at the Ministry for settling labour dispute cases, Qassim Jamil, Director of Labour Guidance said that a mass complaint filed by 1474 workers for unpaid wages has been referred to the Labour circuit court in the emirate.
At the
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 'UAE committed to protecting labour rights'
Posted on 28/12/2009
The UAE Government insists on strict implementation of all laws governing the labour market so that the rights of all parties are protected, Minister of Labour said.
The Minister of Labour Saqr Ghobash Saeed Ghobash on Sunday made the remark during a tour of a labour complex of one of the major companies operating in the country.
The ministry had earlier recorded a number of labour law violations by the company for failure to provide standard accommodation facilities to its workers in
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 Ministry of Labour formulates taskforce for enforcing temporary contractual workers' scheme
Posted on 24/12/2009
The Ministry of Labour (MoL) has set up a national team to follow up implementation of the model imitative for management of cycle of temporary contractual workers from India and Philippines out of the federal government vision to enforce recommendations issued by Ministerial Consultations on Overseas Employment and Contractual Labour for Countries of Origin and Destination in Asia (Abu Dhabi Dialogue) in January 2008.
The team is made up of government and private sector representatives from
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![]() UAE gets International acclaim for its efforts in guaranteeing the rights of expatriate workers
Posted on 08/11/2009
Athens - UAE's Labour Minister HE Saqr Ghobash attended a round-table conference, which was co-chaired by the UAE as part of the activities of the Global Forum on Migration and Development which concluded today in the Greek capital.
The meeting was also attended by Abdul Hadi Al Khaja, UAE Ambassador to Greece and the UAE's official delegation comprising Yousef Abdullah Abdul Ghani, Executive Director for Policy and Strategy at Ministry of Labour and Col. Rashid Sultan Al Akhdhar, Director of
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 UAE Labour Minister meets UN Special Representative
Posted on 06/11/2009
Athens - H.E Saqr Ghobash Saeed Ghobash, Minister of Labour yesterday met with Peter Sutherland, Special Representative of UN Secretary-General on International Migration and Development on the sidelines of the meetings of the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Athens.
The meeting reviewed aspects of cooperation between UAE Ministry of Labor and the Office of Immigration and Development of the United Nations.
Ghobash thanks Sutherland for the message he sent to H.H Sheikh Abdullah
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 UAE is committed to protect rights of workers: Ghobash
Posted on 05/11/2009
Athens - The UAE is very conscious of the contribution contractual workers make to its economy and in return is committed to protecting their rights and to empower them to fully benefit from their residency in the country, UAE Labour Minister H.E Saqr Ghobash affirmed yesterday.
"We would like to open an honest debate about the nature and scope of essential social services that could and ought reasonably to be provided to temporary migrant workers, bearing in mind the cost-benefit
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 Ghobash hails importance of e-link between Labour, Interior
Posted on 05/11/2009
Labour Minister HE Saqr Ghobash, has stressed the significance of the electronic link agreement between the Ministries of Labour and Interior, citing the sponsorship of Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister HH Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, of the signing ceremony.
He also commended the efforts of the supervisory team to link the two ministries electronically in short time, adding that the ministry was keen to shoulder its responsibilities as per declared federal
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 Ghobash will lead UAE delegation in International forum for migration in Athens
Posted on 02/11/2009
H.E Saqr Ghobash, UAE Minister of Labour, will lead a delegation to the International Forum for Migration and Development 2009 being held in the Greek capital, Athens on the 4th and 5th of November.
In an interview to Emirates News Agency "WAM", the minister said that UAE's participation in the forum is an important opportunity to engage in International dialogue on issues of labour migration in order to establish the concept of multiple models of labour migration and the need to take the
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