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LABOUR IN THE UAE 
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The Nation|Employment

Midday break rule for labourers in UAE comes into force from July 1

Ministry of labour is to intensify its inspections across the country to ensure that the midday break rule is implemented, announced a senior official.

Midday break rule takes effect on Tuesday

Wanted: Skilled employees in UAE

Many Dubai residents moonlighting for that extra cash

The Nation
Companies are keen on hiring Emiratis and training them for the job market
 
The Nation
Businesses lash out at residency cap proposal for labour

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Video: Construction workers get longer break

Companies operating in Dubai face tough penalties if they don't adhere to summertime midday break rules for construction workers.

The Nation|Employment

More labourers being paid through banks

Companies are on track to move to the new electronic salary payment system, Labour Ministry officials and corporate representatives said.

The Nation|Employment

Sharjah companies struggle to find homes for workers

The municipality is charging companies registered outside the emirate extra to use labour accommodation, despite an existing shortage of accomodation for Sharjah companies.

Emiratisation

Easier work culture lures

New emiratisation drive

Have your say: Emiratisation move

Companies split over decision

Tanmia: Enough nationals for HR posts

Labour ministry to target 10,000 posts

Emiratisation 'won't target expat secretaries in small businesses'

Ministry to oversee recruitment

Revised labour law ready in August

Tanmia to prevent paper emiratisation

No more emiratisation quotas soon

Tourism sector to step up emiratisation

Emiratisation 'will rectify division of labour market'

Expat secretaries to be allowed new positions

Companies may opt to keep secretaries

Finding jobs for UAE nationals

Some private firms 'lack commitment'

Two thirds of unemployed are women

Human resource development project to help achieve nationalisation goals

Emiratisation programme targets 2,000 jobs this year

Ministry to support Careers UAE 2007

Career expo aims to fulfil emiratisation goals

'Training is key to emiratisation of human resources sector'

Companies keen to hit emiratisation targets

UAE nationals to be trained for UN jobs

Tanmia to train Emiratis for jobs in retail sector

UAE nationals check out career options in retail sector at job fair

Retail sector emerges as the place to develop career

Emiratis explore new job frontiers

Two-year plan will enable Emiratis to get UN experience

Job seekers to be employed in health sector

Unemployment figure rises as Emiratis seek better jobs

Meeting discusses plan to restructure labour market

Unified policies 'will create employment'

Partnership to find private sector jobs for Emiratis

Moving Emiratisation ahead gradually but surely

UAE reiterates pledge to provide decent jobs for all

Agreement to boost employment in Fujairah

Sharjah centre set up to enhance skills of young UAE nationals

Tanmia to train Emirates University students for employment market

Opinion

Standing on the shoulders of giants

UAE labour shortage on the horizon?

Don't shoot the messengers

Opinion: We came, we work, we go

Labour dispute is blackmail

Five-day week on its way

Learn and earn while on the job

A positive step to root out illegals

Tackling labour issues

Pay and conditions

Workers demand 'overtime' money

Modern labour accommodation to be set up

Labour needs laws. And fast

Sewage workers suffer from respiratory troubles

Have your say: Minimum wage

Negotiation best way to set salary

Workers want holiday on May Day

Poor salaries leave safety inspectors' posts vacant

Have your say: The UAE work culture

Special panel to study minimum wage plan

Ajman puts halt to construction work after nine at night

Labourers make parks their homes for 22 months

Hundreds take to streets for better working conditions and pay rise

Labour recruiting agencies may be shut down

Discrimination 'a big issue'

India plans MoU on labour in Gulf

Decision on outdoor summer work expected by tomorrow

Ministry sets midday break timing

Satellite technology 'will aid ministry'

Power returns to Jebel Ali labour living quarters

Water cut likely to hit labour accommodations for days

Dubai Municipality to study income discrimination

Maids admit to faking claims of abuse

Four teams tasked with studying global labour laws

Workers seek better living conditions

Firms violating break rule to be named and shamed

Finding suitable jobs for nationals

'We will ensure rule is enforced'

No noon break for key utility employees

Firms caught flouting summer break law

Unpaid workers urge speedy end to ordeal

Awareness campaign kicks off

Cleaners fear to file complaint at ministry

Ministry orders employer to pay for workers' hotel stay

Ministry to name break violators

Cleaners appeal over 12-hour shifts

Fines for firms ignoring midday break

Ailing toilet cleaner resigns from job

Workers ask for midday break during Ramadan

Desperate Indians head to Iraq for work

Heat takes its toll on labourers

New worker residences 'will improve conditions'

Public relations drive rolls into Mussafah

Firms which leave workers to rest in heat to be fined

Workers get Dh6m in unpaid wages

'Finally we are receiving what is our right...'

Abandoned workers recount ordeal

Hundreds of 'bachelors' crammed in squalid and dilapidated buildings

Hundreds protest over non-payment of wages

Ministry to intensify labour inspections

India plans to train workers headed for Gulf

Injured worker fights to get compensation

Police seize five pickups transporting labourers in RAK

Camps to be shut are 'unsuitable' for living

Workers turn down two-day weekend plan

Labour units 'failing civic standards will be shut'

Stranded women say only option is to work as maids

Jobseekers complain of recruitment agency 'scam'

UAE signs MoU with Pakistan

Big jump in favourable verdicts for workers

Workers in moral dilemma over shifting graveyard in Fujairah

It's either short leave or no pay

Worker housing safety lapse to be punished

Basic wage of Filipino maids double

Hundreds of employees suffer injuries at work

Labourers win housing battle

Radical changes in labour law mooted

10 firms caught violating safety standards

City for workers begins to take shape

Hundreds of workers forced to live in attics

Housing zone at Industrial City completed

Companies housing employees in industrial premises to face closure

Housing complexes closed to protect workers' rights

Safety rules for buildings under construction soon

Report 'does not reflect ground realities'

Ministry to set minimum wage for workers soon

Weekends far away from home

New contract to protect domestic helpers

Female workers take group showers to beat the clock

Employer cannot deduct visa fees

Hospital staff face job dilemma

Filipinos upbeat over new labour agreement

Workers file complaint over unpaid wages

Company breaks barriers through rewards

Filipinas discouraged working as maids

Health insurance law violators warned

Stiffer penalties for firms violating break

Salary to be paid in banks

Sharjah ban on worker buses in city criticised

Ministry resolves labour issues during open day

Heat is on to ensure midday break rule

Volunteers to help applicants fill in forms

Authorities urged to allow labour unions

Workers can collect salaries from post offices and exchange firm

Midday break violators will be named and shamed - minister

No place to escape from searing sun

Midday break: Companies can start early to compensate for time lost

Companies promise to adhere midday break

Worker protest causes traffic chaos

Heat prevention tips to help labourers

Heat strikes in the emirate

Open day proves boon for some workers in trouble

Heat cases 'take a nosedive with midday break rule'

102 companies fined more than Dh1m for violating break rule

Special unit to check implementation of safety rules

'Only 11,000 have used amnesty offer in Abu Dhabi'

Ministry cracks the whip on midday-rule violators

Public sector 'not bound by break rule'

Lukewarm reply to job offers

Toiling in the heat, serving with a smile

Manager vows action against nude workers

Midday rule violators say they were unaware of regulations

600 workers march against deduction of food allowance from meagre salaries

Workers deported for demanding salary hike

530 firms flouted noon break rule

Sri Lanka hikes wages of maids

21 firms found employing illegal workers

Inspection reveals labour violations

New system will ensure electronic salary payment

No more salaries in cash for workers from January

Ministry steps in to help destitute labourers

Sri Lanka sets minimum wage for workers

90% of accommodation for labourers meet criteria

Senior employees in top posts exempt from degree verification

Losses and manpower problems feared

Managers who ill-treat workers will be prosecuted - Dahi

Iraq experience leaves its scars

Labour ministry told to protect workers

Illegal workers pay a heavy price for that little extra cash

Human rights watchdog seeks collective worker representation

Firm 'has not paid wages for three months'

UAE to monitor occupational health and safety

Rights report 'ignores UAE steps to protect workers'

Work ban for leaving job 'is unfair'

Expat workers to undergo stringent health examination

Dh600 health policy cover in to stay in 2008

Labourers to assess their living standards

Mission work permits from January 2

Labour Ministry to hold conference aimed at improving workers' benefits

Legal Indian housemaids 'do not face abuse'

Ministers to meet to discuss workers' welfare

Labour officials work on draft of new declaration

Service centres to educate workers about their rights

Lack of data hits labour welfare plans

Officials sidestep contentious six-year residency cap for workers

'Revamp sponsorship system'

Nine teams set up to address labour problems

More workers are paid electronically

Sponsors to pay for return tickets of absconding maids

Health clinics overwhelmed by influx of new workers

Workers forced to live in freezing tent by recruiter

From open tent to proper shelter

Sharjah companies struggle to find homes for workers

Filipinos urged not to fall prey to agents

Sport championships to spread awareness among workers

Construction firm says workers' demands instigated by third party

More labourers being paid through banks

Labour panel lets workers play games to know them

'Minimum wage means we can no longer afford to hire maids'

Counter workers at Emirates Post complain about longer work day

Maids work in UAE for lower salaries

Fewer Emiratis employing Indian housemaids

Service centre for workers opened

Abu Dhabi labour ministry scraps degree verification system

UAE laws and agreements guarantee labour rights

Bachelors say grim living conditions hard to change

Work on housing for labourers resumes

Companies 'need to show more gratuity'

Protests

2,000 labourers damage company property

Labourers refuse coming back to work

Protesting labourers still baulk

New workers to replace protesting staff

Facts and figures

Labour protests in 2005

'We had no idea workers were planning to protest'

Protesting workers return to their site

Deportation for rioters

Negotiation best way to set salary

Workers from two firms protest over unpaid wages

Indian labourers suspected of being behind 'threats to disrupt work'

Labourers in Sharjah march for wages

Sharjah labourers protest over unpaid wages

Ex-Naxals not seen behind violent protests

Minister stands by statement on ex-Naxals

Many construction workers deported

Labourers refuse to work citing 'heat'

800 take to streets over quarters

Labour officials flay violence

70 employees protest working conditions

All protests 'must have a valid basis'

200 workers protest over unpaid wages

Workers had no right to protest, says company official

Protesting workers claim they are underpaid and overworked

Police hotline effective in reducing labour protests

Protest over unpaid wages in second day

1,600 workers march from Ajman to Sharjah over unpaid wages

Employees seek help of court and embassy to get unpaid wages

Significant fall in labour complaints

100 protest at construction site

Company not paying promised wages, say Chinese workers

Workers protest non-payment of salaries for months

Protesting labourers refuse to resume work

Chinese workers camp out on street in protest

Protesting Chinese workers to be deported

Thousands of workers stop work demanding increase in salary

Unpaid workers seek ministry help to end their misery and go home

Labourers back to work after protest, say police

Dubai Police help end violent labour protest

Workers told to abandon protest after being assured of salary increase

200 workers demand salary raise

Violent protestors could be deported

Workers to be deported after violent demonstration

800 arrested workers remain in custody

Hundreds of Chinese labourers protest

Workers receive pay hike after downing tools

Labourers repatriated after salary dispute