UAE - LABOR MARKET

UAE - Labor Market



UAE - Labor Market

Introduction

Dubai is a center of the construction boom in the world in 2006-07, which attracts migrants from South Asia and elsewhere to help build the world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai. The financial crisis reduced or stopped construction activity, and some employers in Dubai left without returning the passports of migrant workers, migrants pay back wages owed to them.

In July 2010, more than 300 workers from India who were owed dirhans 800 ($ 217) a month is not reported being paid at least six months. The Embassy of India retrieved their passports, but the workers stayed in Dubai for fear that, if left without wages owed to them, never received. Migrants who lose their jobs in the UAE are supposed to leave immediately.

The Ministry of Labor, United Arab Emirates said it had paid back wages to 1,500 "stranded migrants" in June 2010 and sent home. In September 2010, about 700 migrants who were not paid by the Engineering and Contracting Al Saqr were given tickets to their countries of origin, but not to their hometowns, most reported that it had paid $ 1,500 to $ 2,000 to get the UAE to win $ 250 to $ 300 a month. The UAE has revised its policy on migrant workers by requiring employers to deposit the wages of workers in a bank account, creating a paper trail to expedite the resolution of wage disputes.

Dubai, one of the seven emirates of the UAE, was about 30 percent of the six million people in the United Arab Emirates in 2009, one million were Emiratis and five million foreigners. Of the five million foreigners in the UAE, around 1.8 million are indigenous, 1.2 million are Pakistanis, 500,000 are from Bangladesh, one million are from other Asian countries, and 500,000 come from industrial countries. (A May 2010 that the UAE population at 8.2 million, 80 percent of foreigners, and 45 percent of the Emirates, were in the labor force.)

Like other GCC countries, UAE has sought to nationalize or Emeratize its workforce, encouraging employers to recruit citizens of the UAE instead of foreigners. However, Ali-Ali concluded that most of the UAE employers do not want to hire citizens of the United Arab Emirates, who preferred the higher salaries and easier work usually found in the public sector .

Bahrain. Bahraini Labour Market Regulatory Act, 2009 aimed at ending the patronage system, which requires foreign workers to local sponsors who must approve the job changes and departures. Pursuant to Decision No. 79 the implementation of the LMRL in August 2009, employers must apply for work visas for foreigners through the Regulatory Authority Labour Market (LMRA), the official sponsor of foreign workers, and migrants to turn to the LMRA permission to change jobs after completing the contract if they find another employer in Bahrain who wants to hire them.

Bahrain also introduced a minimum wage for migrant workers and requires contracts in the language of the worker detailing job responsibilities, hours and ...