Q: Dear Sir/Madam, I won a labor case and the execution is also completed, but my employer still hasn’t paid. I requested to cease the company, but still, nothing has happened. How can I get my money faster? What’s next?

Q: I have got the final labor case judgment date of 20/03/2024 and I waited for more than one month, but the company did not respond. So I registered an execution case dated 30/04/2024 in Dubai Courts and issued a notice to the company. One person visited the company location but a person from the company said that the company was not there, so the court representative took a picture of the location and reported back to the court. On 23/05/2024, I visited the Al Adheed Center again and they issued a digital notice by email, and till now the company has not responded. I need your expert advice, what should I do now? Please note that the company is Dubai-based. The license is LLC and it's already blocked due to a group complaint against them by the MOHRE.

Q: Dear Sir, Please reply to my problem. I am currently in Abu Dhabi. I have a labor case against my old company in Abu Dhabi for my final settlement amount for 14 years. I won the case and got the final judgment and execution started on March 2021. Until now that company did not pay anything with respect to the judgment. The company having a commercial license as a branch in Abu Dhabi & the parent company license in Sharjah. The Abudhabi branch has no assets (no vehicles, no own office - Has a rented office, no bank accounts) under Abudhabi License. The execution court made a decision to freeze the company account under Abudhabi License but they have no accounts under Abudhabi License. But all of their accounts are under Sharjah license. In this situation, how can I proceed with the court to block the company accounts? The execution court had already made several decisions to seize the assets (But the Abu Dhabi branch has no assets). Please advise how to handle this subject.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.