Dubai: More than 10 million Ministry of Labour transactions have been processed by the ‘Tas'heel' system since it was launched in 2007, according to a top official.
Last week the ministry announced the phasing out of the Global Information Technology (GIT) system and the shift to the new system after four years of gradual moves, said Mohammad Bin Dukhain, of the Government Communication Team at the Ministry of Labour.
The decision was made to make transactions easier, he stressed, in response to a Gulf News story — ‘Companies upset over scrapping of online labour transactions in UAE'.
He said according to statistics at the Ministry of Labour 80 per cent of forms and transactions reach the ministry from Tas'heel and only 20 per cent went to the ministry through the GIT system.
Huge leap
Last month, he said, the number of transactions reached 821,887. "In 2007, the transactions started at 25,000 and in 2011 alone, the number exceeded 4,880,000.
All these numbers are a broad indicator of the huge leap achieved by the Tas'heel system in the labour market, and reflect the trust in this system," he said.
Bin Dukhain said the growing use of Tas'heel by private companies and establishments in the UAE also indicates that it is the favourite choice of companies and clients in the UAE.
"The ministry did a customer survey where 77 per cent of those who took the survey commended the effectiveness of the Tas'heel system, its success and the fact that it cuts expenses," he said.
Free of cost
He said that the Tas'heel system has been incorporated by the ministry's website and it is free of charge.
"The company willing to use the system would have to sign a contract with one of the approved service suppliers to get a user name for the company and a password to get acquainted with the rules of usage, and all this is for free," he said.
Bin Dukhain said the GIT system was launched after a partnership contract between the Ministry of Labour and a private company, and the contract had a clause enabling the ministry to move to another system to carry out its clients' transactions if it developed another system which allowed different establishments to log onto the system electronically.
