"Ministry hotline to receive labour complaints", 29 April 2015

The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs will soon launch a hotline service to receive complaints from workers about employers failing to comply with the new wage protection system, a senior ministry official has disclosed. Law No. 1 2015 issued in February this year made it mandatory on all employers to transfer salaries of their employees to a financial institution. Khalid Al Ghanim, Director of Labour Inspection Department at the ministry said that wage protection and monitoring section will start monitoring companies once the six-month grace period given in the law is over. He was speaking on the sidelines of an event at Industrial Area held by the ministry yesterday to mark the World Day for Safety and Health at Work  which falls on April 28. “The section will monitor the transfer of salaries. Currently we are training employees on how to implement this and  preparing  to conduct an awareness campaign among workers. There will be a hotline for workers to lodge complaints,” Al Sharq quoted Al Ghanim as saying. Once a complaint is received, the inspection section will immediately deal with it to protect the workers interests. There will be proper investigation to check whether the complaints are genuine, he added...