Cow Pie

Hi guys

Firstly HNY and all that - hope 2010 will be better than the last one. I am running a free zone company in Knowledge Village (owned by a US holding company) and we are looking to take our first employee. We have offered someone a contract and she has asked for her 30 calendar days annual leave and ticket home as per UAE law. I have been to four different people including a government source and all answers are different - does anyone KNOW what we need to offer to comply?? Tried the Labour people but never get an answer!!! Grrrrrrr.

Thought I would try the forum as usually spot on with advice and local sources have proved (quel surprise) unreliable and baseless. Any help appreciated!!! Or a decent contact.

DM

Inselaffen

think the 30 cal days holiday is correct but the flight home applies only at the end of the contract. many companies do though give an annual ticket home.

Autonomy

The 30 days include weekends usually. It works out to 22 working days I think, or 4 weeks not 30 working days.

these may be useful to you:-

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7682539/Uae-Labour-Law
http://www.zu.ac.ae/library/html/UAE...ELabourLaw.pdf
http://www.kslg.net/doc/UAE_Employme...oc_26Aug08.pdf

Cow Pie

Thanks for this - we are offering a permanent contract (as permanent as they can be anyway) so would we have to offer a ticket home every year...?

Cheers


Dan

Millhouse

we have people here with less than 30 days.

The Dean

does anyone KNOW what we need to offer to comply??

Hey Dan, I've thought of a great way of making sure you don't fall foul of the UAE labour laws....

.... why not offer her much more than the legal minimum???

Cow Pie

We've already made an offer and in terms of salary it is much far more than market because we have found someone who merits a higher salary. I just need to ensure that aside from being fair that we don't fall foul of the law, whatever that may be... Unlike other companies in the UAE we aren't trying to manipulate people's circumstances. I'm not offering the legal minimum - I didn't say that - I want to understand what it is... That's all.

The Dean

Fair enough - I was only teasing. Nice to find an employer that doesn't take the 'let's get the cheapest possible person' attitude..........

Cow Pie

No worries - to be honest I could have found someone months ago but given that the business is me plus one other right now that other needs to be decent and we need to pay accordingly. Just frustrating (same old frustration) that answers are different wherever you turn. Got to love the UAE.

Jeeper

Our company contracts vary (the older contracts are 30days) as people used to take the month off (generally in the summer) back when this city was a real expat city / hardship posting.

Now was are using 22 working days (which is roughly the same) but cater to the more common habit now of taking shorter breaks (people were milking the 30day thing).

Autonomy

The ZU PDF here is the actual law and easy to understand...

Jeeper

That's still hard to do when you still don't know what the legal min is though....

Autonomy

HELLO..... am I talking to myself here? The twatting law is linked here with the legal minimums in plain English... SPEAK A DA ENGLEESH?

Jeeper

I was merely responding to the Deans post.

Cow Pie

Jeeper - legend, thanks.