Background

An employee filed a case before the First Instance Authority for Settlement of Labour Disputes (FIASLD) in Mecca requesting the cancellation of the authorisation decision and other punishments but his claim was dismissed so he filed a new claim with the same requests.

The FIASLD issued a ruling dismissing the claim. The employee appealed the ruling before the SLHASLD which examined the case and stated that the requests made by the employee had been made previously in another claim. The SLHASLD added that the provisions of Article 225 stipulated that parties in a dispute cannot file a claim for the same dispute which has already been settled by a final ruling issued by one of the Authorities and therefore the SLHASLD agreed with the FIASLD ruling.

The SLHASLD issued a ruling upholding the appealed ruling.