A few days ago, a court in the United Arab Emirates awarded a reward, a plane ticket, and 25,000 dirhams to an employee who had been wrongfully fired.
Obliging the employer to pay compensation for the unfair dismissal of the employee
A private company was ordered by a civil court in Ras al-Khaimah to pay an assistant engineer (Arab) 25.7 thousand dirhams in exchange for his due wages, an end-of-service gratuity, and compensation for his arbitrary dismissal. This was in addition to an allowance for a travel ticket to his country, as well as the appropriate suit fees, expenses, and attorney's fees.
He filed a lawsuit because the employee was deprived of his salary in the UAE
In detail, the plaintiff stated in the case papers that he was brought from the company with the profession of a farmer due to the lack of a “quota for the establishment”, and the contract continued to include his work as a farmer contrary to the truth as he works in a private company as a technician and assistant engineer in the engineering office of the company for a salary of 2668 dirhams, and he continued to practice his work for four years and left him due to the company’s refusal to pay his salaries for a period of five months, and he demanded that the company pay him 44 thousand and 595 dirhams labor dues and refer the case to the investigation to prove with the testimony of witnesses that he stopped working at the request of the owner of the company, and the representative of the company submitted a memorandum that included that the plaintiff’s salary is 2250 dirhams, And that he stopped his work on his own, and that he borrowed 3,308 dirhams, and the representative of the company acknowledged that the plaintiff had overdue salaries for five months at a value of 2,250 dirhams for each month, and he was not entitled to claim the rest of his financial dues that he claims, given that he left work on his own and did not file a complaint with the authorities.
The role of witnesses in obtaining the employee his dues after unfair dismissal
During their evidence, the two proof witnesses indicated that the plaintiff worked as a technician in the company's laboratory and that he was paid a salary of 2,600 dirhams. In addition, they stated that the plaintiff was the person who brought the lawsuit. The first witness determined that the reason for the plaintiff's departure from work was due to non-payment of his salary, whereas the second witness denied knowing the reason for leaving work. The first witness decided that the reason for the plaintiff's departure from work was due to non-payment of his salary. The two witnesses came to the conclusion that throughout the other two years, the plaintiff did not take his leave for a period of time that was longer than one month.
Cases of compulsory payment of financial dues and compensation to the employee after unfair dismissal
And it was stated in the operative part of a partial civil court ruling that since the reasons for the termination of the work relationship are due to the company due to its breach of its obligations and non-payment of the plaintiff's salaries, and accordingly the court concluded that the plaintiff's dismissal from his work was done illegally, and as long as it was proven that his work period started from June 2018 until November 2022, so that his work period is estimated to last until November 2022, so that his work period is estimated to last And she explained that as long as it was proven that the termination of work belongs to the company, as the plaintiff left his job due to non-payment of his salaries, the court tends to oblige it to pay an allowance for an air ticket to his country, and accordingly the court orders the defendant to pay the plaintiff twenty-five thousand dirhams, seven hundred thirty-two dirhams, and twenty-five fils. In exchange for his owed earnings, an end-of-service gratuity allowance, and compensation for his arbitrary dismissal, she was compelled to pay him an allowance for a ticket to his country, as well as the proper suit fees, expenditures, attorney's fees, and the dismissal of the case in what exceeded that amount. In addition, she was had to pay him compensation for his arbitrary dismissal.
