Improving The Labour Force Conditions

The UAE Government is currently engaged in a major and multi-faceted campaign to improve the conditions of the expatriate labour force in the country.
The campaign, launched on the instructions of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai is designed to tackle many of the problems currently faced by the labour force.
These include health and safety concerns, poor quality of accommodation, failure by companies to pay salaries promptly and the heavy burden placed upon workers as a result of the high fees and interest payments demanded by recruitment agencies in their home countries.
Minimum wages
The ministry is also preparing proposals for the introduction of a minimum wage structure, at first in the construction industry, which will be expanded to other sectors.
The government's intention is to devise rapidly a framework that will permit it to meet the relevant international standards relating to the rights of workers. Some offending firms have been barred from recruiting workers.