{"id":482,"date":"2008-06-15T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lmra.gov.bh\/en\/?p=482"},"modified":"2023-03-27T13:44:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:44:51","slug":"is-this-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lmra.gov.bh\/en\/2008\/06\/15\/is-this-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this legal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been forced to sign a letter as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The employee shall not at any time for a period of one year after leaving the &#8230; company, without written approval seeking or obtaining employment or be directly or indirectly involved in any business or company or individual that competes directly or indirectly with the business of &#8230;company with the Kingdom of Bahrain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Please tell us whether this is a valid legal letter which should be signed by the employees as per the labour law in Bahrain and if we don&#8217;t sign, what action can the company take or if not legal, where should we complain? 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We are registered with the LMRA.<\/p>\n<p>A reader<\/p>\n<p>* LABOUR Ministry Legal Advisor Dr Abdulbasit Abdulmuhsin said: &#8220;According to the Civil Law, Article 629, for the purpose of protecting their business, and if the positions carried on by the employees enable them to know sensible\/crucial information about the company, the employer can make a written agreement with the employees forbidding them from working with competing companies for:<\/p>\n<p>* A limited period of time<\/p>\n<p>* In specified places (companies, areas or towns) and not the whole country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been forced to sign a letter as follows: &#8220;The employee shall not at any time for a period of one year after leaving the &#8230; company, without written approval seeking or obtaining employment or be directly or indirectly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lmra.gov.bh\/en\/2008\/06\/15\/is-this-legal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[290],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is this legal? 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