Q: I am working in DMCC. My company is not paying my correct end of service nor unclaimed leave salary nor notice period. Also, they deducted 2000 per month for 7 months saying it's cost-cutting which I never accepted, and they said they will compensate later. Which court do I need to approach if mediation there fails and what are my rights? Is the mediation not able to tell that too there?

Q: Hello, What should I do if it has been two months but still I haven't received my December 2017 salary? In addition, it seems like my company is not doing anything to pay my salary. Kindly give me some advice about it, since I'm just new here in the UAE.

Q: Sir, I am currently working for a construction company in Dubai. We haven't received our salaries for 5 months already. I got an offer from another company and they need me to start urgently. As my contract is unlimited, I am required to finish the 1-month notice as per the law. However, I also quoted that as per law, if a certain company has not paid their employees at least 3 months, the employee is entitled to leave without completing the notice period. I filed a complaint at the MOHRE with a reason of leaving the company in 2 weeks' notice due to the failure of releasing salaries. I also need to get my settlement as soon as possible as well. Now, they are threatening me that this case will go against me and my future career employment. Any advice on what to do?

Q: Sir. If I file a labor case for my pending salary and final settlement, can I travel to my home country or not? Please advise me.

Q: Greetings. I am working in an Abu Dhabi-based company. I have three months pending salaries since Dec 2021. The fourth month is ongoing. I got a new job and I submitted my resignation by mail on 24-Feb-2022. Now the company says our WBS system is blocked and they can cancel my visa by paying a penalty. But I have to sign that I received all pending dues, then they will provide my pending dues whenever they received money from a client. Any chance to join my new company without any problem? If I go to the labor court, can I get my pending dues immediately? How much does it cost? Requesting your kind guidance.

Q: Dear sir/madam, I joined a new company in the UAE. One of my cards is still not approved to do work in a specific area so the company asks me to stay in a room after joining. I am still waiting for more than 50 days and the company is not paying me a salary. I asked them to give me work somewhere else and pay me, they are ask me to wait. Can I get my salary legally for the period in which I'm staying in the room as per their instructions?

Q: Hi, I hope you can give me some advice and guidance relating to visa cancellation and departing the UAE. I am currently employed, by a global company, in the UAE. I have been based between Dubai and Europe, I have not exceeded 6 months outside the UAE during that period. My current visa expires on 16/10/22. I have taken an offer to transfer to Europe permanently. I have suggested I transfer on the date my current visa expires - 16/10. Do I need to return to the UAE for visa cancellation or, can my employer, as a sponsor, cancel the visa online? Regarding gratuities, as I understand it, the UAE law is that they must pay this to me before the cancellation of my visa. Can I elect where those gratuities are paid? I would prefer for the final salary and gratuities to be paid to my account in Europe, can I request or insist on this? Thanks a lot in advance for your help or guidance on this topic!

Q: Good day, My contract ended yesterday. I have been working with them for six years. I have not taken my annual leave for this year. Am I entitled to get my paid annual leave? In addition, I still have four months of unpaid salary with them. For two of those months, we signed a letter stating that they could not provide a salary due to the company's situation, which we understood. However, my manager told me that she would give me the salary in cash because I was working during those two months. For the other two months that they did not give us our salary, they asked us to sign photocopied copies of a salary slip just to show that we had already been paid. We signed them because they were only photocopies and they told us that they needed them to settle things with MOHRE/labor. In total, including this month, I am owed five months of salary.

The UAE has mainly the 3 sectors which have their employment laws, like the laws of companies under MOHRE (governed by Federal Law no. (8) of 1980 Labour Law, Domestic works govern under Federal Law no. (10) of 2017 On Domestic Workers and Free Zone companies governed by their specific employment laws.

An interview-format article covering the topic of filing an employment court case in the UAE. This is from the legal podcast of lawyer Ludmila Yamalova, the founder of Lawgical with LYLAW.

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The provisions of this Decree-Law, known as "New UAE Labor Law", govern labour relations in the private sector of the United Arab Emirates. The New Labor Law repeals the previous UAE Labor Law (Federal Law No. (8) of 1980).