Dubai: Companies that produce dishonest reports regarding salary payments to their employees will be referred to the public prosecutor, said a senior official from the Ministry of Labour.
Humaid Bin Deemas, acting director general at the ministry, said companies that submit to the ministry documents wrongfully claiming they have paid their employees salary on time will be charged with forgery and will be referred to public prosecutor as this will be considered a criminal act.
"The ministry has introduced a new system under which each company must send through e-mail to the ministry a monthly report regarding their employees' salary," he said.
He said any company that failed to send the report within 30 days of transferring salaries will be blocked.
"If a company introduces its monthly report saying that they have paid the salaries on time, and then the ministry receives a complaint from any [person] in this specific company that they did not receive their salaries, that will lead to blocking the company.
"We will investigate such complaints from workers who say they have not been paid. If it's proved that the company did not pay them, then we will refer that company to the public prosecutor," he said.
"In August this year a decision was issued by the Ministry of Labour, which stated that each company that employed more than 50 people must sign an undertaken at the ministry stating that they are paying the employees salaries on time.
"Those companies must send their report about their employees' salary every month," he said.
Bin Deemas said such reports must reach the ministry within 30 days from the date of giving the salary.
He said companies will face sever penalty in case they fail to do so.
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