UAE - Two Emirati women who only took government grants and didn't work have been fined Dh100,000 by the Dubai company that employed them for violating the rules.
The manager of a Dubai company has been fined Dh100,000 by a court for helping Emirati women make false claims in the Nafis program. The Dubai Public Prosecution referred the case to the court, accusing the manager of violating employee localization rules.
The company manager was accused of hiring two Emirati women and using two work permits for purposes other than those for which they were issued. The company used false contracts to falsely claim compliance with employee localization rules in order to obtain government support through the Nafis program.
The women had only been working for the private company for four months, and their main purpose was to receive a monthly subsidy of Dh5,000 from the Government.
The Court ruled that the manager should be fined 100,000 dirhams. The amount of the fine was to be multiplied by the number of workers. The two employees were also notified to return the Dh20,000 subsidy.
A recent inspection conducted by the UAE's Ministry of Human Resources found that 1,077 private companies in the UAE had violated employee localization regulations since the second half of 2022.
It was confirmed that these companies violated the law and tried to achieve their goals by illegally employing UAE citizens, and as a result, penalties were imposed on these companies, which employed 1,818 UAE citizens.
UAE citizens are considered to be in violation of the law when they are proven to be engaged in nominal jobs without actual tasks to help the companies achieve their employee localization goals.
Penalties for violations
Actions taken against offending companies are subject to substantial fines of up to Dh20,000 to Dh100,000 per case, depending on the severity of the offense.
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