Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:
The Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (HRSD) has introduced updates to the guidelines and procedures associated to workers’ absence from work in non-public sector institutions. This new replace contains the cancellation of reporting expats’ absenteeism from work; changing it with an enhanced mechanism that goals to protect the rights of employees and employers and enhance the attractiveness of the Saudi labor market.
The new replace permits employers to submit their requests to terminate the contractual relationship with an expatriate due to un-reported absenteeism, whereby the employee’s knowledge would mechanically be faraway from the institution’s data and his/her standing would turn out to be “discontinued from work”. In this case, the employer would not bear responsibility towards the worker, and the worker may transfer to another employer, or issue a final exit from the Kingdom within (60) days. In case neither measure are taken after (60) days, his/her status would become “Absent from Work” in the Ministry’s – and all related – methods/ data.
HRSD has clarified that expat employees with present experiences of absence, prior to the announcement, can nonetheless switch to a brand new employer supplied their standing is “absent from work”; and late work-permit charges on the employee’s file would mechanically switch to the new employer upon their approval. HRSD additionally highlighted that the switch have to be accomplished inside (15) days from the date of the Ministry’s approval, in any other case, the standing will stay “absent from work”.
This replace is a part of HRSD’s steady efforts in the direction of guaranteeing the equal safety of employees’ and employers’ rights, and an extension to its quite a few endeavors in the direction of enhancing the Saudi labor market. This additionally contains different initiatives corresponding to the wage safety program, the Labor Reform Initiative (LRI), and the amicable settlement of labor disputes.
*Source: AETOSWire
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