SKY IS THE LIMIT

Assuring Market that Labour Regulatory Authority (LMRA) e-Support Centre will never detrack from the development path, the authority’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ausamah Al Absi said that the centre had responded to 67 per cent of the electronic requests, during September, within 24 hours. Continue reading

LMRA Chief holds meeting with envoys

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With an aim to strengthen bilateral bonds between Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) and embassies of different Asian countries, the authority’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ausamah Al Absi hosted ambassadors of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka for a business lunch at the Capital Club. Continue reading

SMEs Committee Praises LMRA

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CEO of the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) Osama bin Abdulla Al-Absi said that LMRA is constantly interacting with all economic sectors in the kingdom in order to enable business owners overcome the obstacles they are facing through providing them with more facilities and incentives, in line with the sound directives of the wise leadership in this regard. Continue reading

LMRA Appoints 19 new inspectors

Nineteen new inspectors have joined the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) as Judicial Officers.
Following the directives of the Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the newlyrecruited officials will contribute in detecting and controlling the increasing illegal employment phenomenon. Continue reading

No legitimacy in retaining passports’

If the employer ” has a proper contract in place and his employees are paid on time as per the agreed terms, the employee will not want to `run away’. Stressing that there is no justification when it comes to retaining the passports of employees, top Labour officials in the Kingdom opined that no employee would ‘run away’ that easily if he/she is treated well by the employer. Continue reading

Confusion Reigns In Private

The statements issued by Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) Chief on ‘work permit’ and deportation of expatriates’ homemakers, who are employed as teachers across the Kingdom, has, undoubtedly, landed many private schools in a state of perplexity. Majority of the school heads, in unison, said that they did not want to ‘avoid either paying the monthly levy of BD10 against each foreign employee or the application fee’ as stated by Ausamah Al Absi, and assured that they were willing to rectify legal irregularities, if there are any. Continue reading