Monday, December 19, 2022 – 12:33 PM
ABU DHABI, 19th December, 2020 (WAM) — The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department launched an extensive awareness campaign for workers in labor cities across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Labor Relations No. 33 of 2021 and its implementing regulations, which entered into force on February 2, 2022.
Counselor Youssef Saeed Al-Abri, Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, stressed that the expansion of awareness campaigns for various segments of society comes within the framework of the important role played by the department in cooperation with its strategic partners in maintaining security and stability, in line with the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed. Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, to consolidate legal knowledge because of its essential role in protecting rights and complying with the duties stipulated by law.
He explained that the labor awareness campaign, which lasts for a full year to cover labor cities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, is of particular importance with the implementation of the new labor law, by highlighting the most prominent provisions of the articles of the law and the scope of its application, and the patterns of work it has created that anticipate the future and allow Great flexibility to assign workers to institutions and companies, and the guarantees it provides that achieve a balance between the rights and obligations of workers and business owners from investors.
Counselor Youssef Al-Abri stated that the awareness campaign aims to reach a wide segment of workers to raise the level of legal awareness in light of the updated legislation and the pioneering judicial system, and its importance in preserving the interests of both parties to the contractual relationship, in a way that supports the provision of an attractive environment for investments and skilled labor.
In addition, the campaign launched its activities in the presence of a large number of workers in the labor village “ICAD”, where a lecture was presented in three languages, namely Arabic, Urdu and Bengali, to introduce the most important legal articles stipulated in the new labor law in the UAE, with the presentation of introductory materials. In an interactive way, in addition to organizing competitions and distributing incentive prizes to the participants, in order to achieve the desired benefit for the target group.
Dina Omar / Khatoun Al Nowais