In this article Alex McGeoch discusses some of the Do's and Don'ts from a legal angle when hiring news staff in the UAE.  Whether in your role as an operational manager or as specialist HR officer, you will, from time to time, be required to engage new employees.  This may be because a staff member has decided to leave the company and tendered their resignation. Or, perhaps, one of your employees has been “under-performing” and you have decided - to use the handy American euphemism - to “let them go”).  Or it may be that company business is expanding and additional staff are required.