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Link: No labor law discrimination between Saudis, expats
Highlights of this article:
- Ministry of Labor has said that it is working hard to protect the rights of workers without any discrimination on the basis of nationality
- Ministry of Labor says Ministry is making all efforts to implement labor laws protecting Saudi nationals and expatriates alike.
- The ministry said that it is leaving no stone unturned to realize the vision of King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, to protect human rights and to check human trafficking, which, it added, is in contrast to the legislation, values and genuine principles of the Kingdom derived from the Shariah.
- Ministry admitted that such violations (employee abuse) do occur on the part of both employers and workers.
- Ministry has already reduced the working hours of people involved in the chemical, construction, paper, leather, textiles and timber industries to seven hours a day.
- Ministry will oversee and guarantees workers’ rights, is a ministerial decision, which punishes any establishment or organization that delays payment of salaries to workers. Article 1 of the decision calls for a ban on those establishments which delay the payment of workers’ salaries for two months from recruiting workers for one year. Furthermore, the penalties increase with the duration of the period of non-payment of salary.
- Ministry says that a Royal decree is already in place to check human trafficking. The law punishes those who commit human trafficking with a maximum of 15 years in prison or a fine of SR1 million or both.
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