Abu Dhabi: About 100 Emirati professionals in Abu Dhabi emirate will be given a jobs in waste management thanks to a government initiative. About 23 Emirati professionals in Al Ain have already got the jobs and signed contracts with the employers at a ceremony in Al Ain on Tuesday. It is part of an initiative [...]

Abu Dhabi: About 100 Emirati professionals in Abu Dhabi emirate will be given a jobs in waste management thanks to a government initiative. About 23 Emirati professionals in Al Ain have already got the jobs and signed contracts with the employers at a ceremony in Al Ain on Tuesday. It is part of an initiative [...]

Dubai: A host of policies and rules have been adopted by the Ministry of Labour to enhance the participation of local workforce and to boost Emiratisation. The policies includes the establishment of Khalifa Fund for Emiratisation, the new classification of Companies and establishment based on the number of Emirati employees they have. Saqr Gobash Saeed [...]

Abu Dhabi: Bangladesh is planning to increase the minimum wages of its workers coming to the UAE, the Bangladesh Ambassador to the UAE told Daily UAE. “The country is also encouraging more Bangladeshi professionals to come and work in the UAE,” Mohammad Nazm Al Quaunine said on the eve of Bangladesh’s 41st Independence Day. The [...]

Al Ain: Etihad Airways will conduct an open day today between 10am and 4pm for Emirati women who wish to work for its newly opened contact centre in Al Ain. The women-only contact centre with more than 80 Emiratis was opened yesterday by Mubarak Hamad Al Muhairi, Etihad’s board member and chairman of the Executive [...]

Dubai: About 6,000 labour site facilities in Dubai were inspected by the Permanent Committee of Labour Affairs last year. The inspections were an average of 500 visits per month, including 3,923 tours to labour sites to ensure the full implementation of the decision to halt work at noon. Major General Mohammad Ahmad Al Merri, Director [...]

Dubai: Prices of essential foodstuffs are expected to fall by 20 to 30 per cent in March following an agreement between suppliers and the Ministry of Economy to keep rising food prices in check, according to a ministry official. The ministry will not raise the price of bread despite repeated requests by bakers because it [...]

Dubai: Export restrictions and increased production of biofuels could worsen the global food crisis, Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has warned. “Clearly those that impose these restrictions have a logic, they do not wish to see their own populations starve. So the question then is, ‘What alternative policies could allow them [...]

Dubai: The Dubai Police and the Ministry of Labour have sent home 850 labourers stranded in the UAE after the company they worked for went bankrupt. Dubai Police sources confirmed that the company went bankrupt after one of the managers stole an undisclosed amount of money. The labourers were sent back to their home country [...]

London: Opec is facing growing calls to boost oil production as crude prices in Asia and Africa surpass $100 (Dh367.8) a barrel for the first time in two years. Nigeria’s Bonny Light grade, from which traders gauge the cost of West African oil, rose to $100.12 a barrel on January 17, passing $100 for the [...]