Covid trend: UAE employers cut salaries, ask staff to work from home country
Waheed Abbas/Dubai
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Employees are at a loss about the contagion impact on their wages.
There is a new emerging trend in the UAE. Don’t work from home (WFH) amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but work from the home country.
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Of late, the UAE companies are taking this new approach, urging employees to work from their home countries at reduced salaries because of the contagion and to save costs amid these tough and uncertain times. But employees are at the loss, as they have to settle at lower salaries.
Covid UAE: Sharjah announces work from home for staff
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New decision applicable from February 14.
Authorities in Sharjah have activated remote working for all government employees starting February 14. The Sharjah Department of Human Resources announced the decision because of increasing Covid-19 cases.
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The department has issued a circular to all government departments, that allows them to take any or all of the decisions listed.
Government departments can decide on the percentage of people who can work from home. Employees that have to be present physically at the workplace will report to office.