13 Dec 2018Kuwait
The National Assembly of Kuwait has approved a draft law stating health insurance coverage must be provided to all foreign residents and visitors in the country. It is not clear when the new law will come into effect.
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The External Affairs Ministry in India has issued a note deferring the requirement for obtaining Emigration Clearance before departure from India by select categories of Indian nationals traveling for employment to eighteen countries.
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The General Organisation for Social Insurance and the Labour and Social Development Ministry has launched a new initiative which allows employers in the private sector to upload and update electronic version of employment contracts for their Saudi and foreign employees. It is expected the registration process will become mandatory for all employers in Saudi Arabia in the near future.
The Saudi Council of Engineers has launched a new online Ejttiaz service for the registration of foreign engineers and technicians seeking employment in both the public and private sectors in Saudi Arabia. Registration must be completed before an employment contract is signed and a work visa obtained.
Indian nationals whose passports are not endorsed with a notification ‘Emigration Check Required’ (also referred to as ‘non-ECR’ or ‘ECNR’ passports) and who are traveling for employment to Afghanistan, Bahrain, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, UAE or Yemen, are required to register through the e-Migrate portal in order to obtain an Emigration Clearance or they risk being denied departure from India.
Employers in Saudi Arabia are no longer required to conduct labour market testing before a block visa request is adjudicated by the Ministry of Labour and Social Development.
As employers increasingly focus on employee wellness programs and preventative measures to manage employee use of private medical insurance, occupational health and safety is becoming increasingly important in the GCC. In Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Labour and Social Development recently introduced a new Resolution* which seeks to give employers a practical framework within which to manage health and safety issues in the workplace. In this article, we outline the new prescriptive measures which employers now must comply with. The Resolution applies to employers with fifty employees or more and categorizes employers, according to their industry activity, into low, medium and high risk environments.
A new low-cost employee insurance scheme began in the UAE this week, replacing a previous scheme which required expatriate workers to provide a AED 3,000 (approx. $816) bank guarantee when applying for a work permit.
