The Ministry of Labour is all geared up to launch an electronic establishment service next week. The service will provide companies with facilities like electronic work permit that will be processed within 24 hours.
The service will enable firms that choose to become an e-establishment to get their requests processed electronically instead of going to the Ministry of Labour Humaid bin Deemas, Assistant undersecretary, Ministry of Labour, said, “The purpose of e-establishment is to enable firms to communicate with the ministry online and process all requests like visa requests electronically.”
At the moment firms with more than 50 employees can apply for this service. However, Humaid said that in future this will be made applicable to all the firms. E-establishments will get benefits, such as a quota that allows them to recruit a certain number of employees every year.
Bin Deemas said, “Based on the category of the company, the company will be allowed to recruit employees every year and the procedure will be much simpler because the firm owner will already have the approval to recruit workers based on his quota. It can be done through the Internet and the approval will be given online.”
The quota for ‘A’ category companies is 20 per cent and for ‘A’ category firms following the 2 per cent Emiratisation requirement, the quota is 25 per cent. For B category firms, the quota is 15 per cent and C category is 10 per cent.
Bin Deemas said, “The quota can also be increased upon the employers request and it will depend on the track record of the company.” A firm in ‘C’ category can move to ‘A’ category if it fulfils the Emiratisation quota.
Saif Al Suweidi, Manager of the Ajman office, Ministry of Labour said, “This service is not available to firms that are not e-establishment but it is a very beneficial service because companies can directly get an approval to recruit a certain number of employees annually.”
Autor(en)/Author(s): Kamakshi Gupta
Quelle/Source: The Emirates Evening Post, 13.03.2007