Background

An employee filed a case before the First Instance Authority for Settlement of Labour Disputes (FIASLD) in Jeddah against a company requesting to be reinstated, to receive salary until his return, and for his service to be considered as uninterrupted.

The FIASLD issued a ruling requesting the reinstatement of the employee and his salary from the date on which he stopped work to his return. The ruling also requesting the company to consider the employee's service uninterrupted.

Decision

The company filed an appeal before the SLHASLD which examined the case and stated the employee had failed to submit the appeal within the permitted period of time under the provisions of Article 218 of the Labour Law and therefore the appeal should be dismissed.