Dubai: The Dubai Municipality marked international Worker's Day on May 1 with the inauguration of a month-long festival with employee welfare as the underlying theme.
The Human Resources Department at the municipality honoured 521 workers as part of the festival which will also feature events on safe and sustainable working environments.
The festival will run until May 30. As part of the celebrations, the municipality reaffirmed its commitment to ensure every possible effort to foster modern international working standards.
Khalid Ali Bin Zayed, director of the municipality's Human Resources Department, who inaugurated the function to honour the exemplary workers, said the civic body had always tried to ensure sustainable work environments for its employees, giving priority to their needs and professional rights prior to assessing their performance.
"In the coming years, we will exert our maximum efforts to establish a more sustainable working environment in line with modernised international working standards" he added.
Bin Zayed, along with other officials from the concerned departments, later distributed gifts to the 521 workers from various departments whose services were lauded.
Diverse activities
Programmes envisaged under the month-long celebrations include daily lectures, educational awareness programmes, cultural, social, religious and recreational activities.
Subjects tackled under the lecture programme include one on Aids awareness. The Dubai Police Headquarters have titled the session ‘HIV'. Other lecture topics include human resources services, summer diseases/vaccines, food safety and accommodation hygiene monitoring and a number of religious lectures, including sincere work, tidiness and prayer, charity and blessed life.
