How to accept a job in a GCC state while working in another

In order to obtain a new employment visa from a prospective employer in the UAE, employee should cancel the visa held from the other state.

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Nine in ten bosses vet applicants on Facebook: Half have reconsidered offering a job after seeing a candidate's social media accounts

Those who are failing interviews time and time again, think about this too. How is your FB life going?

With the online presence and social media, we are so exposed to outside world. Employers will not just go through your CV

When we add people into our group, we do similar checks. So I can imagine employers do the same

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3234545/Nine-ten-bosses-vet-applicants-Facebook-Half-reconsidered-offering-job-seeing-candidate-s-social-media-accounts.html

Thank you note from Mayanthi

Mayanthi Galketiya‎Jobs4Lankans

3 October near Dubai ·

 

I am glad to tell you all that I got a job as a Business Development Officer in a HR consultancy firm. Thank you Jobs4Lankans for helping me to find a good job. Thanx a lot. My special Thanx goes to Maliga Marasinghe akki, Sanjeewa ayya andSaumya Wickramasinghe akki. — feeling happy.

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Thank you note from Wazeem

Wazeem Arshad‎Jobs4Lankans

6 September · 

 

Dear Madam

Thank you so much 4 gave me a wonderful offer 4 me.
Now I got da job in Liberty Automobile
Thank u

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Dubai dreams fade away

Dubai, the city paved with gold, where many expatriate workers have made their golden dreams come true through long years of hard work, is fast losing its allure. On the contrary, it is fast becoming a nightmare. It has been an ever popular destination for the desperately jobless Sri Lankan workers, past and present, for over three decades. But today that dream is slowly being shattered like soap bubbles exposed to the hot desert air, as the authorities place heavier burdens on the working populace.

Trouble began when Dubai Municipality introduced a law that only one family could live in a villa. Thousands of workers share bed space in villas in order to save a substantial amount of their earning which they could remit back home. With the new rule already in effect, where the landlord could be fined up to 50,000.00 Dhirams (App.Rs.150,000.00) for sheltering more than one family, many have been evicted and are scrambling to neighbouring emirates where rents are cheaper and travelling becomes much lengthier and costlier. Many who have children and shared villas with other families are getting back to their country as they cannot cope with the cost of education for their kids. It is expected that this rule will shortly extend to all those sharing apartments too, triggering an exodus of people who will be out on the road without shelter, becoming temporary nomads.

The lucky ones are those given accommodation by their employers, such as the airline companies and hotels.

Authorities here seem to be in a hurry to fill the thousands of gleaming new flats now available at an exorbitant price! The expatriate workers do not have and do not want to part with such sums of hard earned money for rents as they will not be able to save any money.

The nightmare continues in other areas as getting to work on time is increasingly frustrating with a pathetic public transport system and a thick-skinned taxi service! The roads are clogged with more and more vehicles as new toll systems at several major bridges are also creating confusion and an additional dent in the purse. It is imperative that you live close to your office and your children attend a nearby school to avoid a daily dose of exasperation and expenditure.
With the cost of living rising steadily and rumours of a tax on your pay packet coming soon, the golden era the workers enjoyed is fast fading away. Many have decided to call it quits and go home, even if it means going back to nothing.

Take heed, if you are preparing to come on an employment visa, make sure your employer provides you with accommodation or else you are in for your initial jolt on an exasperating bumpy journey to realizing your dreams.

Amarnath Paul
Dubai

Ministry of Labour warns firms against cheating workers

ABU DHABI – The Ministry of Labour (MoL) has warned companies in the capital against using fraudulent ways for calculating the remuneration of workers such as overtime for working on official holidays, according to a senior official at the MoL.

According to Qaseem Jameel, Deputy Director of the Inspection Department at the MoL, “If an employee works on official holidays like Eid Al Adha and the day payment is Dh100, the firm should pay the worker Dh150, in addition to the overtime,” added Jameel.

Moreover, workers have the right to take compensatory off in lieu of extra work on official holidays, he said, adding that the same rule applied to all the expatriates living in the country as there is no discrimation on religious grounds.

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Confusion over rules for NOC requirement

By Wafa Issa, Staff ReporterPublished: December 02, 2007, 01:07

Dubai: Ambiguity prevails on the rules for issuing the No Objection Certificate (NOC) when changing sponsors, say public relations officers.

It seems that there is a new rule at the Ministry of Labour everyday and no clear mechanism is in place on how to implement it, said Eyad Nassif, Public Relations Officer (PRO) at Fujairah National Construction.

"We as PROs are lost when it comes to these new decisions, especially with regard to the NOC rule as there is a lot of confusion on what is required. There should be a reference point at the ministry that provides us with the necessary information but it is simply not there," said Nassif.

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