An employee residing in Qatar with his family obtained his rights by a decision of the Labor Disputes Committee in the lawsuit that was filed against the employer company for not obtaining his rights and financial entitlements specified in the terms of the work contract with compensation, in accordance with the requirements of the Qatari Labor Law, and because the parties did not reach an amicable solution. The dispute was referred to the Committee for the Settlement of Labor Disputes, which held its sessions listening to the arguments of the two parties, where the lawyer, Dr. Asmaa Ali Al-Qura Daghi, the representative of the student (the worker) submitted a document for his request all the documents indicating his entitlement to all the rights claimed, which were submitted to the committee in a convincing legal manner, after which it decided to delegate An arithmetic expert to examine the requests received by the student, where the expert concluded a statement of the amounts owed to the student in favour of the company, such as late wages, end of service gratuity, and sales commission.
In an attempt by the company to deprive the worker of his rights that he demanded and approved by the report of the arithmetic expert, the company tried to push for the forfeiture of the claimed right due to the lapse of the period specified by the Labor Law in Article 10 of it and specified for a full year between the termination of the work relationship and the claim for the rights arising from it.
The lawyer, Dr. Asma Ali Al-Qura Daghi, said that she was able to prove that the work relationship between the student (the worker) and the one who is required of her (the company) had ended, but returned and resumed after a period of no more than two months from the date of the interruption, which is considered with him and by virtue of Article 54 of The Labor Law states that the worker’s service is connected, as the worker has returned and left work after a period of time has passed again, so the calculation of the period of the year that is projected to claim the employee’s rights starts from the date of the second cessation of work until the date of claiming the rights arising from the work relationship through the complaint submitted by the worker Which was proven to the committee to be less than a year, which required the Dispute Committee to reject the payment submitted by the company related to the lapse of the period specified by the law to claim the right, considering that it came without a legal basis according to the facts that the lawyer, Dr. Asmaa, the representative of the worker, was able to prove.
Lawyer Dr. Asma Ali Al-Qura Daghi, commenting on the committee’s decision, said that she is happy with the outcome of the decision, which proves that one of the first priorities of the State of Qatar is to secure a decent life for expatriate workers by preserving their rights defined by the law that came with rules that guarantee a balance between the interests of the worker And the employer to support the labour market and its prosperity.
