Q: Hello, I have received an offer from a hospital in Abu Dhabi. Their message is: Attention: Appropriate Expatriate, With reference to your Resume posted on [........], we are pleased to inform you that your resume matches our requirements and has been shortlisted for an interview at [........]. Presently, we have a mandate to commence expansion on our numerous projects, we urge you to answer the questions below and forward your most current CV/Resume to our HR Department for further screening and consideration for employment. Best Regards, Dr. M.S. I am a dentist from Albania (East Europe) working as a cosmetic dentist in Turkey. Please can you consider my question, is it fake or not?

Q: I received an offer letter from a university in Dubai in 21.10.2019 asking me to join in November 2019. They also asked me to pay my work permit cost which they will reimburse letter. No interview was conducted and the mail says they took my CV from naukri.com and checked my educational qualifications and did background verification. Can I accept the offer?

Q: I got a job offer from a company in Dubai today, telling me to send a signed copy to a travel agent there. Is the offer fake, because I have not been interviewed?  

The fraudsters allegedly post jobs online or even on reputable websites like #Monster.com or #Naukrigulf.com with too good to be true salaries and unbelievable benefits. Then WITHOUT an interview or fake telephone call interview (which is never done for real jobs in the UAE) provides an offer letter which includes the names and logos of the employer with or without the UAE Embassy stamp and then asks you to pay processing or visa fee to a travel company or exchange companies. BEWARE!

Further to my article Scam Alert: Fake UAE Job Offers, I believe the scam artists have read the same. Yes, I call them the artists as it is an art to fool people. They have paid attention to every aspect of my article and now have come up with an innovative way to scam the job seekers. Therefore, my revised strategy in this article.

The UAE has adopted a major reform in its legislative system that brought about 40 new laws and amendments to the company law, criminal law, personal status, among others. The amendments aim to develop the legislative structure in various sectors, the labor law being one of these, was the most recent. We try in this article to shed light on the changes introduced with the new labor law and their significance on both, the employer and employee.

The provisions of this Law, known as "UAE Labour Law", govern the relationship between employers and employees and other labour matters in the United Arab Emirates. There are special labour related regulations applicable in some of the free zones in the UAE.

According to this Decree, tentative approval to admit a foreign worker for the purpose of employment in the UAE cannot be granted until an Employment Offer that conforms with the Standard Employment Contract is duly signed by the employee and presented to the Ministry of Labour.

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).