GCC Labour Law

GCC Labour Law

GCC Labour Laws course offered by Solomon People Solutions is designed to simplify, clarify, interpret and help organizations abide by the labour laws in the GCC region. It is, basically, labour law made simple.

Medium of Instruction: English
Duration of the program: 16 hours

Program Overview

This course has been developed for all HR professionals within any industry sector. It would also be highly beneficial for those working as company secretaries, legal heads who have had minimal formal training in labour law and wish to consolidate their experience in the region. 

Learning Objective

  • Learn about the importance and nature of labor laws in the GCC.
  • It will prepare HR practitioners to successfully handle common labour law issues which arise across the GCC. 
  • Become familiar with their staff’s rights and the rights of their organizations in the context of their geographic location.
  • Understand and apply the new regional labour law amendments
  • Utilize different methods of recruitment within legal boundaries for local recruitment of citizens and for recruitment from abroad.
  • The focus of the course is to offer broad level guidance on how to make sure their HR policy is in line with GCC Labour laws and to ensure full compliance with Labour Laws. 
  • Ensure the employment contract process is followed, such as contract entry, contract termination, probation period, and contract termination.
  • Participants will also get to hear about the latest thinking in ethical HR and going beyond legal compliance. 

Target Audience

  • HR Professionals
  • Business Owners and Managers
  • Legal Advisors and Compliance Officers
  • Government Officials
  • Recruitment Agencies

Program Outline

Module 1: 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 codes 
  • Pre-labor law application in the GCC 
  • Identification of exempted categories 

Module 2: 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 deals revealed 
  • Changes in legal status 

Module 3: Notice Period, Probation Period And Leaves 

  • Notice period definition 
  • Guidelines for a notice letter 
  • Different applications of the notice period 
  • When notice is not needed 
  • Probation period and its practices 
  • Types of leaves 
  • Working hours 
  • Overtime: explanation and calculations for eligibility 

Module 4: Wages And Disciplinary Actions 

  • Total, basic and minimum wages 
  • Wages payment methodology 
  • Money deductions from employee wages 
  • Disciplinary actions and guidelines 
  • Penalties mentioned in the labor law 
  • When and why to discipline 

Module 5: Dismissal And Termination 

  • Arbitrary dismissal 
  • Unfair dismissal 
  • Termination from a legal point of view 
  • Arbitrary termination 
  • End of service allowances and calculations 
  • The bright and the dark side of layoffs and terminations 
  • Legal constraints for a healthy turnover 
  • Legal insights for human resources professionals 
  • Attempts to develop and standardize a common GCC labor law 

Program Benefits

How you benefit attending this program?

  • To be on top of recent developments and challenges of Labour law
  • Enhanced understanding of the foundations of the law-business interaction for strengthened career opportunities
  • Develop a better understanding of how a range of labour law disciplines contribute to the regulation of business
  • Learn a thorough comprehension of the subject as well as a critical awareness of it
  • Gain skills to handle difficult legal challenges and successfully advise clients or employers in specialised fields
  • Learn about a diverse variety of issues in Labour Law

How your company benefits by sponsoring you to this program?
By sponsoring you to this program, your organization will be able to:

  • Better analysis of legal problems using the expertise of trained professionals
  • Demonstrate enhanced understanding in the organization of the creation, scope, rights, and obligations on Labour Law
  • Develop a synthesis of solutions to organizational issues
  • Dealing with major issues that come with Labour Laws
  • Possible identification of the history, motivations, sources, and processes for conflict settlement of  Labour law

 

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    Beginning of the program:

    Each participant has to fill in a pre-training need form to ascertain their expectations that can be catered to by the facilitator.

    At the end  of the program

    Each participant has to submit a Post Training Action plan for implementation and to ascertain the Return on Investment.