Q: Dear Sir, My case is in Dubai Labour Court (since one-year). The 1st hearing is completed and I'm waiting for my judgement. My visa expired in November 2016. I got a Certificate from the court giving the dates of the case from 2016 to 2017. Can I cancel my employment visa and labour card (without any effect on my Labour Court decisions and proceedings)? I want to win the case, but at the same time, I need to go back to my country and come back on a new employment visa & labour card. Please advise what I should do. Thanks, DEVASSY

Q: Can I request my employer to cancel my visa even if I have a pending case? They filed a case against me (breach of contract).

Q: Hello, I filed a case against my former employers as they have terminated me without paying my end of service settlement. How can I get another company to grant me its visa? I have understood that I will have to sign the form stating all dues have been paid before they cancel the visa.

Q: Hi. Could I please get some advice on the following: I own a company in the UAE, It is an LLC. I am a partner and I have a local partner holding 51%. We have a separate contract that gives me all ownership. I am sponsored through my company. I would like to cancel my work visa with my own company and be sponsored by another company to work for them. My company is run and managed by employees. My question is, am I able to cancel my working visa, be employed by another company but retain ownership of my own business? I will not be taking a salary from my business. Any help regarding this matter would be appreciated. Thank you.

Q: I would like to ask a question. If there is a company with limited liability between three partners, can any of the partners remove any employee from the company, such as the director of managers, the implementation manager, the director of the hall, any other manager or any other employee without the consent of the other partners?

س: أريد أن أسأل سؤالاً لو سمحت. إذا كانت هناك شركة ذات مسؤولية محدودة بين ثلاث شركاء، هل يستطيع أي شريك من الشركاء إخراج أي موظف من الشركة من مدير مدراء أو مدير تنفيذ أو مدير صالة أو أي مدير آخر أو أي موظف آخر دون موافقة باقي الشركاء؟

Q: Hi, I left the UAE on February 6th. I am on an employment visa in Dubai. The company has closed down, and the owner has gone back to his home country. Will my labor card be canceled automatically once I am outside the country for 6-8 months? Once my Dubai visa expires outside the country, can I re-enter on a new visa? Does the visa or labor card automatically get canceled if an employee is out of the country for 6-8 months and their visa also expires while outside the country? Or do I still need to cancel my labor card? PS: I learned that my labor card expired in 2021. So, will the labor card and visa still get canceled, or does someone have to come and do that? I do not want to file a salary case against the company, nor do I want any legal action. I am considering coming back on a new visa after my old visa gets canceled. I wanted to know if the old visa and labor card will get canceled automatically by then since I will be out of the country for 8 months and my visa will also expire while I am outside the country.

Q: Dear Sir/Madam, I resigned from my Dubai Media City Freezone company because it failed to operate for 7 months. It had no office, and it did not pay me on time. I was emotionally very affected, so I resigned after consulting MOHRE. After I resigned, my employer asked me to go on a one-month vacation, assuring me that the project would soon operate and requesting that I withdraw my resignation. I thought this was fine, but he took my Emirates ID before I departed from Dubai. Now, he is neither canceling my visa nor sending me the necessary documents to return and find other opportunities. What do I do now? How can I cancel my visa from outside the UAE?

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.

This Decree sets the rules and conditions for the termination of fixed-term (limited) or unlimited (not term-bound) employment contract between employer and worker in the United Arab Emirates.