Essentials of Labor Law for HR Professionals
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate their understanding of the applications pertaining to labor laws in the GCC
- Explain the various types of labor law contracts
- Prepare notice letters and understand their terms of use
- Differentiate between types of legal wages
- Calculate, with legal accuracy, working hours, leave and vacation entitlements
- List the various stages of disciplinary actions according to the labor law
- Distinguish between dismissal and termination and learn when to apply the clauses related to each
Outline
- Labor law application
- The global legal environment
- Types of international legal systems
- History of labor law in the GCC
- The GCC legal environment
- Comparing legal systems in the GCC
- Communicating laws
- Pre-labor law application in the GCC
- Identification of exempted categories
- Legal instruments
- Introduction and overview of labor law
- Enforcement of labor law
- Labor contracts pre-requisites
- Labor law contracts
- Similarities and dissimilarities in the GCC labor contracts
- Essential contents of contracts
- Employer and employee duties and responsibilities
- The secrets of contracts revealed
- Changes in legal status
- Notice period, probation period and leaves
- Notice period definition
- Guidelines for a notice letter
- Different applications of the notice period
- When a notice is not needed
- Probation period and its practices
- Types of leaves
- Working hours
- Overtime: explanation and calculations for eligibility