4 Key Learning Objectives
- Understand the significance of local and international employment contracts
- Identify the implications of terminating an employee and recognise which employee entitlements are discretionary for employers
- Successfully calculate end of services gratuities
- Gain an understanding of the statutory provisions relating to immigration and sponsorship
Who should attend?
This course will be highly beneficial for those working as company secretaries and legal heads that have had minimal formal training in labour law and wish to consolidate their experiencein the region. In addition it would also benefit in-house counsel and lawyers who have recently been transferred to this region.
About Clyde & Co LLP
One of the major international law firms in the region, Clyde & Co has four Middle East offices operating as a single unit - Doha in Qatar; Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the UAE; and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. The firm formalised its on-the-ground presence in the Middle East over 20 years ago, after many years of client activity in the region. Clyde & Co’s Middle East offices provide advice to corporate clients from all over the world, as well as to regional corporates and governments, on their operations throughout the region. We are integrally involved with assisting companies in meeting their human resource related challenges within the context a rapidly evolving labour law framework across the wider Middle East, North Africa and India.
Internationally, with over 2,300 staff across a network of 27 offices around the globe, Clyde & Co is particularly well known for expertise in relation to international trade, emerging markets and in relation to high profile and/or difficult dispute resolution work.
Clyde & Co is not just a leading shipping, insurance or construction firm, a leader in trade & commodities, the world’s premier aviation firm, a growing force in energy and oil and gas, a pacesetter in the Middle East, a rapidly growing practice in the Americas, a long-term presence in Asia; an early mover in Africa, a specialist in emerging markets, a leader in acting for the world’s entrepreneurs, or the firm to turn to in a crisis. It is all of these.