Q: Hello, I'm structural detailer/draftsman. My employer terminated me last Nov. 30, 2020, due to some mistakes of work. But now more than 1 month already he doesn't want to cancel my visa and he told me to go back to my home country without cancelling my visa. Otherwise, he will file a case against me due to my mistakes and he wants to deduct the cost of rework and material scrapped from my settlement (AED 15k of total cost) due to my mistakes. Hope you can help me and give advice on what to do in this situation. Thank you in advance.

س: السلام عليكم أخي يعطيك العافية، كنت أعمل في شركة خاصة وطبعًا الشركة توفر إيميلات تخص الشركة لجميع الموظفين في الشركة بأسماء الموظفين. باعتباري موظفًا بالشركة، دخلت على إيميلات زملائي بالشركة؛ ولكن دخلت بطريقة نظامية بدون اختراق وذلك عن طريق الباسورد الذي حصلت عليه من أحد الموظفين الذي يعمل في الشركة مديرًا ماليًا. الآن إدارة الشركة تريد أن ترفع قضية اختراق إيميلات ضدي بسبب أنهم دخلوا جميع إيميلات الموظفين ووجدوا أن الآيبان الخاص بهاتفي المحمول قد دخل إلى ثلاثة إيميلات من إيميلات الموظفين. علمًا بأن باسورد الإيميلات الأخرى كان موجودًا على إيميل المدير المالي الذي أعطاني باسورد إيميله مسبقًا والآن ينكر أنه أعطاني إياه. هل هذا يجرمني بشيء؟ علمًا بأنه كما ذكرت سابقًا، فإنني لم أخترق وإنما دخلت بطريقة نظامية. الشيء الآخر أنه تم إعطائي إنهاء خدمات منذ شهر ولم يعطوني مستحقاتي إلى الآن. قدمت شكوى منذ يومين ضدهم في وزارة الموارد البشرية والتوطين. هل يمكنني إذا رفعوا قضية ضدي أن أقول بأنها دعوى كيدية وأرفع قضية مدنية ضدهم بطلب التعويضات لما سببوه لي من أضرار مادية ونفسية؟

Q: We have a Delivery Service Company. We hired candidates from India and brought them here. We paid for their license. After getting their license, they didn't want to work. Can we claim all the amount that we spent on them?

Q: Hi, I am working as a mechanical engineer in a firefighting company in Abu Dhabi. I am in charge of and representing one of our sites and I am working inside the site. Due to our mistake during maintenance, we created a fire alarm which results in the evacuation of around 450 persons for 20 minutes. Due to this issue, our client charged a penalty of around 40000 Dhs to our company. Hence I need to know what actions can my company take against me. Is it allowed for the company to charge a full penalty amount from me or will they terminate me without settlement if I am proven guilty? If I need to pay the company some amount, what is the maximum amount I need to pay legally? If I am planning to resign from my company, will they make any issues during visa cancellation?

Q: Dear Sir/Madam, An employee submitted a document and its attachments to two municipalities to obtain an NOC from Etisalat for a plot. The employee, who did not know much Arabic or the procedures in that municipality, mistakenly submitted an already filled-out form from another project (which had already been stamped by the municipality) and simply changed the project information and submitted it. The employee later realized the mistake and corrected it in one municipality. However, in the other municipality, they took it as if the employee had forged the document and filed a police case. The company blamed everything on the employee, even though it was not his job to submit these applications. What will happen in this case, when it was all a little mistake? No one was hurt by it, and the project was not even started; it was just a land NOC.

Q: Hello, I am working at a medical clinic in Dubai as a medical receptionist. Recently, our medical clinic received a 15,000 AED fine due to a small billing error I made unintentionally. Now, the clinic is telling me that they will deduct 700 AED per month from my salary, while my basic salary is only 1,500 AED. Is that legal in the UAE?

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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