UAE : Employer cannot deduct visa fees from salary

Abu Dhabi: No employer is allowed to withhold any amount from an employee's salary or deduct visa fees or any other charges, according to a Labour Ministry official.

Obaid Rashid Al Zahmi, Assistant Undersecretary at the ministry, told Gulf News that visa charges should be paid only by the employer. "It's against the labour law to deduct money from the employee for any charges," he said.

The Labour Law, he said, states that no amount of money may be deducted from a worker's remuneration in respect of private claims except in recovery of advances paid to the worker in excess of his entitlements, contribution towards social security, insurance and welfare schemes, fines imposed for any offence and any debt payable in execution of a court ruling.

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