Workers - Employers disputes will be resolve by a new law

His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai told that their is a new draft law to protect the rights of domestic workers and their employers was approved by the UAE Cabinet last Sunday.

"We have approved a new draft law for the domestic workers in UAE. The new law shall protect the rights of both workers and employers," read a Twitter post by Shaikh Mohammad.

"Our Islamic values always encourage us to preserve the rights of the workers and to treat them well, and the law is emphasising this." Under the law, sections will be set up in the residency departments across the country to look into and sort out disputes that arise between domestic workers and their employers", Major General Nasser Al Awadi Al Menhali, Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Assistant Undersecretary for Naturalisation, Residency and Ports, told Gulf News.

"The law is meant to protect rights and obligations of both sides so as to guarantee their interests and rights," Major General Al Menhali said.

A team of representatives from the ministries of interior, labour and justice drafted the bill.

But before to make it and become a law, it needs to be passed by the Federal National Council and signed into law by President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.