Q: Hi. I am working in the client side and my company did not say during joining I have to work 6 days in a week, 5 days at the client side and 1 day in office. My client is working only 5 days. I did not read the full offer letter while signing, as I assumed that office time will be the same as the client's side. I am working on a 6-month contract, renewed basically. Now, they are calling me every Saturday to do work for him only. I don't want to do this. Now, my visa is stamped, after 2 months working. Please help me out, how can I convey to them not to call me on Saturday? Or how can I take the help of the labour office in this case?

س: السلام عليكم، أنا عامل في مغسلة ملابس في أبوظبي. عقدي محدد المدة بتاريخ (2022/2/10). ٨ ساعات عمل ويوم واحد إجازة في الأسبوع. صاحب العمل لم يلتزم ببنود العقد ويشغلني كل يوم 10 ساعات و٥ ساعات إجازة فقط في الأسبوع ولا يعطيني أوفر تايم. تحدثت معه بشأن إلغاء العقد فطلب نصف ثمن الإقامة، وقد أخذ مني جواز السفر.

Q: Hi, I used to work for a company under DMCC and my last day was on Dec 31, 2019. I signed my EOS one week before the said date as I had to leave the country. Then they asked me to continue working with them till the end of Feb 2020 remotely from the USA as they didn't find a replacement for me and I agreed as a favour to help them (I have emails as proof). When I asked them for a contract they told me it's fine we will continue with the same contract and pay you when your manager approves of your working hours and my manager approved all my work hours (I have emails as proof). Now the company is experiencing a financial problem and didn't pay me the last one week of Dec 2019 + January and Feb 2020, they keep asking me to wait until they got some money and pay me. Till now, I still have good relations with them, but the problem I feel the company will not recover as most of the employees including my manager filed cases and resigned because the company is not paying them.

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.

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).