Q 1: What are the types of legal protection for working women?

 

 C: a) Qatar Labour Law No. 14 of 2004, a uniform law applies to all workers without any distinction in terms of type.

 

 B) However, the law devotes an entire chapter to the employment of women.

 

 Where the prohibition to employ women in hazardous, arduous or harmful to their health or morals and other works to be specified by decision of the Minister.

 

 C) the text of the law to give women working maternity leave with full pay period (50) days.

 

 D) awarded nursing hours per day for a year and left her identification at the time.

 

 E) may not be dismissed because of working women because of her marriage or maternity leave.

 

 Add to that the Qatari Penal Code criminalizes and punishes harassment on women, their dignity or their employment in the work of morals and ethics.

 

 

 

Q 2: What are the types of protection afforded to children and the progress made ​​in this area of work?

 

 C: a) Raise the Qatar Labour Law, the age at which juveniles may be employed where to sixteen years.

 

 B) may not run the event without the consent of his guardian, and if the pupils must be approval of the Minister of Education.

 

 C) do not run the latest in acts that inflict damage to the health and safety or morals of the event.

 

 D) Law No. (22) for the year 2005 the prohibition of bringing, Employment, Training and the involvement of children in camel racing, and depending on the accession of the State of Qatar to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Prohibition of the worst forms of child labor and immediate action to eliminate them.

 

 Where the law punished by a penalty of not less than three years and may extend to ten years, and a fine of not less than (50,000) riyals and not more than (200,000) SR.

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Q 3: What are the mechanisms to look into complaints of workers?

 

 C: - created Department of Labour Relations, Ministry of Labour for the determination of labor complaints and requests, in accordance with the Emiri decision No. (35) for the year 2009.

 

 - Department receives complaints of labor, and separating the required speed within a week maximum.

 

 - refer the complaint management after investigation to the competent court within one week.

 

 - exemption from fees for lawsuits labor litigation.

 

Q 4: What are the concrete measures taken by the Government of the State of Qatar for the protection of foreign workers under the law?

 

 A: - law allowed for workers under Article (10) the progress of their requests and complaints to the competent department, along with granting them the right to sue and exemption from fees.

 

 - intervention in case of proven abuse of the sponsor to grant the right to transport the Lord working another job.

 

 - the protection of the worker's wage and to ensure discipline in a timely manner and to punish the employerof imprisonment and a a fine tight in the case of non-payment.

 

 - Prohibition of dealing with a company that violates the labor law to stop all dealings with the ministry until the removal of the violation and correct the situation.

 

 - The issuance of ministerial decisions and operational under the law to compel the employer.

 

 - specifications and appropriate housing, health.

 

 - Prohibition of employment of workers in open spaces during the hours of noon in the summer.

 

 - Compliance with the rules of procedures for occupational safety and health.

 

 - identify actions which prohibits the employment of juveniles and women in it.

 

Q5: Is there a health insurance system for workers?

 

 A: There is currently no law that regulates health insurance for workers, and there is a bill under legislative action, while the current applied to the health card system, to ensure that residents and citizens free health service.

 

 The text of the Labour Law No. (14) for the year 2004 to 2002, the Ministerial Decree No. (16) for the year 2005 to require employers to provide health care, and required contracts in force and approved by the Ministry of Labor require employers to provide health care to employment.

 

 Q6: What are the steps taken by the State to reduce the phenomenon of trafficking in human beings?

 

 C / The Standing Committee for bringing in the Ministry of Labor to reject applications from companies to hire workers that do not implement the projects within the State, or stumble in the implementation of these projects, and the Department of Labour Inspection in the ministry to conduct inspection campaigns periodic and surprise to enterprises subject to the provisions of the Employment Act to verify Use of labor that was recruited.

 

 

 

Q 7: What are the procedures taken to protect the work at risk of occupational diseases?

 

 Be referred to the Labour Code the employer conduct periodic examinations of workers at risk of occupational diseases, and selected \ e table (1) law, and if the medical examination revealed injury factor with any of these diseases to notify the competent department.

 

  Q 8: Group may be exposed to violations by the employer does give the Qatari labor law workers have the right to terminate the contract in case of exposure to violations?

 

 Gave the Qatar Labour Law in Article (51) The right of the worker to terminate the contract before its expiration date if a specified period and without notice to the employer in the event that it is not a fixed term, while maintaining in full its right end of service benefits if the employer committed one of these things.

 

 1. If breach of its obligations under the contract or the law.

 

 2. If the employer or the manager or physical assault indecent act on the worker, or a family member.

 

 3. If the employer or his representative may enter the fraud to the worker's time of contracting with regard to working conditions.

 

 4. If there is a serious threat to worker safety or health.

 

Q9: Does the employment contract ends in the case of the death of the employer or the integration of the facility in the other, or transfer of ownership or the right to manage non-employer?

 

 Article (52) on the following:

 

  Does not end the employment contract in any of the following cases:

 

 1. The death of the employer.

 

 2. Integration of the facility or in any other transfer of ownership or the right to manage other than the employer, and shall be responsible to the solidarity of NATO's former employer for the fulfillment of all rights arising from the latter.

 

 

 Q 10: As we know, the work must be by the principle of reward and penalty law, did it work a maximum penalty factor in order to take advantage of employer worst exploitation of this issue so deducted from the worker a large part of his salary?

 

 Forced Article (6) of the Labour Code the employer to develop a special notebook to record the sanctions and penalties and be subject to the supervision of the Ministry of Labour and also does not allow the employer to the rhythm of a discount than five days of salary.