(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM)) The Ministry of Labour has said that it has recorded a 99.88 percent level of compliance for the midday break decision since the implementation date till June 30th last week.
Records were gathered from 10,430 visited firms across the UAE, stated Maher Al-Obed, Assistant Under-Secretary for Inspectional Affairs, pointing out that only 11 firms violated the laws, particularly 0.12 percent.
The decision, which enters its 11th year, was launched to promote health and safety precautions while on duty, in accordance to international standards. It also enquires employers to post a clear scheduling of the daily working hours during the midday break period, further to that provide shaded areas to labourers during the resting hours.
"Through 18 inspectional teams, we carried out 1544 inspectional visits in the Capital, and 985 visits in Al Ain, Dubai saw 1983 Visits, 1361 visits in Sharjah, 1068 visits in Ajman, 1369 visits in Ras al-Khaimah, 1381 visits in Umm Al Qaiwain and 728 inspectional visits in Fujairah," stated Al-Obed.
"To promote awareness we completed 8,675 educational visits to many labour camps and sites across the nation between the 15 - 30th June, distributing over 10 thousand leaflets in ten different languages to reach out as many workers as possible," he added.
According to him Abu Dhabi witnessed around 1525 labour educational field visits, Al Ain saw 931, and 741 visits took place in Dubai, 538 in Sharjah, 360 in Ajman, 888 visits took place in Ras al-Khaimah, 631 in Umm Al Qaiwain and 330 in Fujairah.
Al-Obed said violators will be fined AED5,000 per worker found working during the break, not exceeding AED50,000. "The company's profile will be forwarded by the inspections department to the Minister's office where it might face temporally stoppage plus degradation in its classification level," he said.
The ministry has stated that daily working hours must not exceed eight hours in the morning or night shift, and overtime should be paid to those working additional hours as stated by the Federal Law No. 8 of 1980 on labour Affairs. A committed employer should also hang a daily work schedule in Arabic to ease inspectional observations and other languages for workers to understand.
According to the ministry's decision, labourers must not work at all during the banned hours if they usually work outside. But companies working on emergency projects can resume work on banned times. "Workers must be supplied with water, healthy salts and lemon, which is approved for use by health authorities in the country. They must provide first aid kits on site in addition to protective umbrellas," according to the ministry.
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