Dubai: Not reporting to work in the UAE or taking leave without providing your employer with a valid reason won’t just cause problems in your professional relationship, it can also land you on the wrong side of the UAE’s labour laws.
Employees who fail to turn up for work for seven or more consecutive days, or more than twenty non-consecutive days (in one year) without informing the employer, violate Article 181 of the UAE Labour Law, which allows an employer to terminate a limited contract in such cases.
Jihene Arfoui, in-house legal adviser at Danube Group, spoke about the situation where the matter of an absconding employee is mentioned. There are two regulations in the Labour Law that come into play when cases of an absconding employee are considered: