Dubai:Ten trade firms will be fined each Dh50,000 for breaching the federal labour law for recruiting violators.
A joint team of 38 inspectors from the Ministry of Labour (MoL) and Dubai Department of Residency and Foreigners Affairs carried out inspections last week on 91 firms to ensure their compliance with the working hours during the month of Ramadan.
The ministry has reduced working hours of private sector companies from eight to six hours per day during Ramadan.
Eisa Al Zarouni, Director of the Labour Inspection Department, said the inspection campaign lasted five hours and came in line with article (65) of the Federal Labour Law (1980) which says “The maximum normal working hours for employees shall be eight hours per day or forty eight hours per week. However, during the month of Ramadan, normal working hours shall be reduced by two hours’’.
‘’Ten companies were found employing 14 violators of whom 12 were sponsored by other firms and the other two entered the country with a visit visa. Penalties include suspension of the firm’s file and a fine of Dh50,000 on every firm found hiring a foreigner not on its sponsorship, or leaving him work for other firm without meeting stipulations of transfer of sponsorship,’’ he added.
Violating firms, he noted, accounted for 11 per cent of the total firms which indicates to a growing awareness among these companies about the risks of hiring illegal workers.
