The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation announced the entry into force of the provisions and articles of Federal Decree Law No. 33 of 2021 regulating labor relations, starting next Wednesday, February 2, 2022, with the aim of ensuring the efficiency of the labor market and promoting the attraction and preservation of the best competencies and future skills from employment.
The Federal Law Decree, issued by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, may God protect him, at the end of last year, aims to enhance the flexibility and sustainability of the labor market in the country, by ensuring the protection of the work relationship and its developments and the exceptional circumstances that it may face. Influencing this relationship, especially as it created a sophisticated system of mechanisms that would enhance the ease of business, competitiveness and productivity of the labor market, in addition to its contribution to promoting the investment of local and global energies and talents.
Good news for workers in the private sector in the state:
The decree-law is located in 74 articles, the most prominent of which is that the employer may not use any means that would force or force the worker or threaten him with any penalty to work for him or force him to do work or provide a service against his will, and prohibit sexual harassment, bullying, or practicing any verbal violence or Physical or psychological on the worker by the employer or his superiors at work or his colleagues or workers with him.