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Firms with over 100 staff 'must' emiratise
Companies with more than 100 employees will have to emiratise their national human resources managerial positions, according to an administrative decision issued by the Ministry of Labour.
- By wafa Eisa, Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:00 August 3, 2006
- Image Credit: Gulf News archive
- The decision issued by Dr Khalid Al Khazraji, Labour undersecretary and Acting Director-General of Tanmia, stipulates that companies with over 100 employees will have to emiratise their human resources managerial positions within 18 months.
Dubai: Companies with more than 100 employees will have to emiratise their national human resources managerial positions, according to an administrative decision issued by the Ministry of Labour yesterday.
The decision issued by Dr Khalid Al Khazraji, Labour undersecretary and Acting Director-General of the National Human Resources and Employment Authority (Tanmia), stipulates that companies with over 100 employees will have to emiratise their human resources managerial positions within 18 months. The process must start immediately.
If these companies find it difficult to meet this target, they have the option to emiratise human resources positions in two phases.
In the first phase, they must emiratise 50 per cent of all human resources positions within 18 months. In the second phase, these companies must emiratise all human resources managerial positions in 18 months.
"The target is companies that have more than 100 employees as they have a well organised and defined HR structure and will be able to come up with a feasible emiratisation plan," said Ayesh Al Bargouti, Director of the Employment and Skills Development Centre at Tanmia.
Around 2,400 firms will be affected by this decision, according to the Ministry. However, to date there are no statistics on the exact number of positions that will be created.
"I believe that we are speaking of a large number of positions as we are targeting companies that have more than 100 employees," said Al Bargouti.
Tanmia will correspond with the firms immediately. The decision includes all managerial positions within the human resources field be it executive, administrative, financial, professional or clerical. People occupying these positions should be responsible for executing tasks relating to human resources, starting from planning and directing human resources to labour relations, wages and incentives, and personnel issues.
Al Khazraji said the ministry has clearly defined the responsibilities and tasks of human resources personnel. Hence, companies will find it difficult to get around the decision by "tweaking" existing titles.
A ministerial decision issued on June 24 stipulated all human resources and personnel managerial positions should be emiratised and firms were given an 18-month period to implement the decision.
Firms must start submitting their emiratisation plan to Tanmia, Al Bargouti told Gulf News.
Tanmia together with the Ministry will decide whether to grant approval to firms to start their second phase of emiratisation after meeting their 50 per cent target in the first phase.
"Firms have to submit a sensible and feasible emiratisation plan to us and will have to ensure that it is followed before we agree on the second 18-month grace period," said Al Bargouti.
"The target is companies that have more than 100 employees as they have a defined HR structure and will be able to come up with a feasible emiratisation plan", said Ayesh Al Bargouti Director, Tanmia Employment and Skills Development Centre.
A new programme to train and develop UAE nationals in the human resources field has been launched as part of the ministerial decision to emiratise the HR managerial profession, said a senior Ministry of Labour official.
'Awtad will be sponsored by the National Human Resources and Employment Authority (Tanmia) and the Abu Dhabi Council for Emiratisation (ADCE).
"The programme will be the base to integrate all UAE nationals into the job market as emiratising the human resources field will create a greater number of jobs for UAE nationals," said Dr Khalid Al Khazraji, Labour undersecretary and the Acting Director-General of the National Human Resources and Employment Authority Tanmia.
The programme will adopt an internationally recognised certificate but it will be reshaped to meet the local market demand.
Ayesh Al Bargouti, Director of the Employment and Skills Development Centre in Tanmia, said training is the key for the success of the emiratisation process. "The training will serve as a catalyst for the emiratisation of the HR sector. Therefore, it is very important to provide a well studied programme," said Al Bargouti.
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