ABU DHABI // The Ministry of Labour is giving a six-month grace period for settling all electronic labour card fines, beginning today. Instead of the full amount, just Dh1,000 can be paid per fine until the end of June.
About 100,000 fines have been issued against 40,000 facilities and the total amount has been reduced, for the grace period, to Dh100 million from about Dh2.8 billion.
Employers who have failed to issue or renew electronic labour cards for employees will have to pay this maximum amount for each card that has not been issued or renewed as of the end of December 2014.
The ministry will also begin the implementation of new administrative fines, including a Dh500 fine for not signing an electronic agreement with employees within 60 days of their arrival in the country or the amendment of their residency status.
A Dh500 fine will be imposed on firms that do not apply for or renew electronic labour cards within 60 days of signing contracts. The fines will take effect from March 5.
“The six-month notice period does not exempt employers from the fines for delay in issuing or renewing labour cards or for not submitting employment contracts to the ministry within a period of 60 days,” said Humaid bin Deemas, assistant undersecretary for Labour Affairs. “A fine of Dh500 will be issued against any employer who will have not done so after March 5.”
He also said that 60 days was enough time for employers to meet all the labour-related requirements through Tas’heel service centres or renew the permits.
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Some of Darwish's last words
"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.