What if I started working right after receiving the offer letter?

Dubai: If you are about to sign your employment contract after accepting a job offer, you may want to carefully read the fine print. In case there are provisions in the contract which are not the same as your job offer letter. This would be a violation of the UAE’s Labour Law.

But what should you do if the company you wish to work with does give you a work contract that is different from the offer letter? Gulf News spoke with legal experts to find out what your rights are in such a scenario.

Contract should be in line with offer letter

Dubai-based lawyer Ayesha Zia, from Dr. Mahmood Hussain Advocates and Legal Consultancy LLC, said that the offer letter given by a company and then signed by a job seeker confirms the intent of both the parties to get into the agreement, based on the stated terms. The ultimate job contract, then, should also include the same terms.

“This understanding was legally codified by virtue of Ministerial Decree No. 46 of 2022, which was issued pursuant to the New Labour Law – Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021,” she said.

Article 2 of this decree states that employers should “utilise the approved standard employment contract that conforms with the job offer when requesting the issuance of the work permit [from the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MOHRE)]”.

Similarly, Zia stated that Article 4 of Ministerial Decision No. 764 of 2015, states that “the employer must extract...

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