Jeddah, Dec 22: The new Labor Law, which has been amended by the Shoura Council recently, offers a range of incentives to both Saudi and foreign workers in the private sector.
The amended law insists that an employer should obtain written permission from the worker before transferring him to another place.
The draft law, however, allows an employer to ask an employee to work in a different place in emergency situations. But the duration should not exceed 30 days in a year. The employer should also meet the worker’s transfer and residency expenditure during that period, the law said.
It also stressed that a worker should be given a written notice by the employer, before firing him from job, after an absence of 20 days if he remained off work for more than 30 days during a one-year contract period (it was 10 days in the previous law).
If he/she is absent for 15 days continuously, a written notice should be given after 10 days (instead of 5).
An employer can fire a worker, nullifying his contract and without paying him any compensation if he/she remains absent for 30 days (earlier it was 20) in a year or more than 15 days (in place of 10 days).
“An employee should not be asked to work more than 40 hours weekly and more than eight hours daily. Working hours during Ramadan shall be reduced to not more than 35 hours per week for Muslims and not more than seven hours daily,” the law said.
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