Q: I am asking on behalf company. We had an employee who was the director of operations. He introduced a lady to our company that she will get us a big project and we need to pay her AED 250000 as a consultation fee. We were hesitant, but as he said he was confident we trusted him and agreed finally. The lady took our money and absconded to India. We went through India and filed a police case there and ever since this issue happened the director of operations wanted to somehow move out of the company and showed disinterest in work. Finally, he wants us to cancel his visa and says he will not help us recover or even help us with the police case. Now we doubt if he has got a benefit out of this deal as he is forcing us to cancel his visa. Kindly help us if we can file a police complaint against him.

Q: How can the employer prove that I stole confidential information and some clients from the company? Can he file a case against me? What are the consequences?

Q: Dear Sir, I'm Satheesh from Abu Dhabi. For the past 3 years, I was working for a free zone company in Dubai. Our company have clients from both Dubai and Abu Dhabi and doing medical billing services for hospitals and medical centres. I was working with one of the company's clients which is a government hospital in Abu Dhabi (please note - govt is removing our company by Sept.). My concern is that the hospital is interested to recruit me as their employee. But I already signed a limited contract with my company which has "Non-competition non-solicitation agreement". My contract states that I cannot join their clients or competitors for 24 months after my visa expiry or end of service. If I violate this law they will take legal actions and they can ask for compensation (Law no. 8 of 1980 for UAE and Law no. 5 of 1985 for Dubai). My visa is expiring by Aug 25th, so I'd like to join there. Can I join this Abu Dhabi government hospital or not? If I join, is there any legal issue I have to face from my company?

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 Law promulgates the Federal Penal Code (Criminal Law) of the United Arab Emirates. Crimes and chastisement punishments shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of this Law and other penal codes.

The law promulgates UAE Criminal Procedural Law (Penal Procedures Law) which governs criminal procedures in the UAE. This law applies to the procedures relating to offences whose punishments are not specified, dogma and punitive offences, and blood money, if they do not violate the Sharia rules.