The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) has announced a set of new rules, controls and standards aimed at ensuring greater balance in the labour market when it comes to disciplinary measures and penalties imposed on workers. The new framework seeks to safeguard the rights and interests of workers, employers and business owners alike.
In a statement published on its official website, the ministry stressed that a stable working environment is not built on the absence of accountability, nor is it achieved through imposing excessive penalties. Rather, it is established when both parties to the employment relationship – workers and employers – understand their respective rights and obligations and have confidence that decisions affecting their employment relationship are based on clear rules and applied fairly.
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The ministry emphasised that the strength of a disciplinary decision does not lie in the severity of the penalty imposed, but rather in the soundness of the grounds on which it is based. While discipline is achieved through the exercise of authority, its sustainability depends on the fairness with which that authority is exercised.
Balancing fair disciplinary action with proof of misconduct
The ministry explained that, although taking a decision to impose a disciplinary penalty on a worker…
