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