Abu Dhabi mobile court settles 53,000 workers’ dues worth over Dhs577 million

Gulf Today, Staff Reporter

The Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi revealed that the number of labourers who received their dues in collective cases by moving to the mobile court amounted to about 53,000 workers, while the value of their dues reached Dhs577,218,466. 

The cases were dated from the beginning of 2019 until the end of July 2020.

During the media forum on the efforts and initiatives of the Abu Dhabi Labour Court, the Judicial Department reported that there was a decrease in the number of labour cases due to the emerging coronavirus pandemic, and the high level of settlements in the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation.

It also reported that since the beginning of the pandemic and for the first three months, there was a decrease in the number of complaints. This is due to the amicable settlement of disputes between employers and workers.

Counsellor Abdullah Faris Al Nuaimi, President of the Abu Dhabi Labour Court, explained that the court is competent to settle disputes that arise between workers and employers in the private sector, including government and semi-government companies and secondary service.

The court currently has 24 judges in the levels of primary litigation, appeal and enforcement, eight of them are Emirati judges.

He said that the future outlook of the court aims to open channels with charitable bodies in the country to contribute to workers obtaining their financial dues that could not be collected, pointing out that no official channels have been opened currently with these bodies, while the Zakat Fund and Zayed Foundation for Charitable and Humanitarian Works and others have been contacted.

He added that the court held meetings with those bodies to provide powers and open programmes to introduce deserving cases, provided that they are approved in the near future, indicating that there were humanitarian cases in which several charitable bodies were contacted, whether to provide travel tickets or health insurance as individual cases.

Al-Nuaimi pointed out that the goals of the future outlook of the Abu Dhabi Labour Court also include focusing on the aspect of awareness and disseminating the legal culture in the field of the labour market.

This raises the efficiency of the judicial and administrative staff to reach quick and prompt justice, and resolving all labour disputes in record time.

On the other hand, the Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance affirmed the importance of activating the role of the “guardian of the estate” in inheritance issues, in accordance with the correctness of the law, and ensuring the speedy and effective implementation of judgments, orders and decisions issued by the courts and prosecution offices of the Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi, related to inheritance.