• The recommendation urging the government to pay greater attention to evaluating the designs of
roads, streets, and bridges in order to comply with international safety and security conditions, to
ensure users ‘safety against potential dangers resulting from using such. The roads sector at the
Ministry of Works has been keen on designing, implementing and managing the road network
in the Kingdom to provide safe, efficient, and smooth traffic flow for all road users, as well as
providing a high-quality transport network and a convenient and efficient infrastructure in the
Kingdom.
• The recommendation to expedite the adoption of the draft law on real estate rent to regulate the
relationship between lessors and lessees, provide the necessary protection for tenants, ensure
reasonable increase of the rent value, and guarantee legal protection against forced eviction,
harassment and other threats. Law No. (27 ) of 2014 was promulgated issuing the Property Lease
Law7. The Lease Disputes Committee will look into any lease disputes. However, the Committee
will not hear disputes arising from leases that are not registered. The Committee has jurisdictions;
and includes two judges assigned by the Supreme Judicial Council. One of the judges chairs
the Committee together with an experienced officer nominated by the competent minister. The
Minister of Justice issues a resolution forming the Lease Disputes Committee, or more than one
committee, to settle the disputes promptly. The Law provided more balance in the relationship
between the lessor and the lessee.
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(8) The right to workﻟﻠﻤﺆﺳﺴﺔ اﻟﻮﻃﻨﻴﺔ ﻟﺤﻘﻮق اﻧﺴﻨﺎم
• The recommendation to proceed with the positive steps towards settling the cases of dismissed
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workers to close this file once for all. The government has indicated in its report that 97% of the
dismissed workers’ cases were settled once for all. It also clarified that it has implemented the
recommendation with respect to returning all fired workers in the public sector. All employees of
the public sector covered by the Civil Service Law, who were dismissed, totaling (180) employees,
have returned to their jobs.
• The recommendation to make further efforts to create employment opportunities to accommodate
the largest possible number of job seekers. The Ministry of Labor launched initiatives and projects
aiming at providing appropriate job opportunities for citizens. It also made available training
programs responsive to the needs of the labor market in the Kingdom of Bahrain to meet the
private sector’s need for qualified and competent human resources. The project on employing
and qualifying Bahrainis for the years 2014 - 2016 is vital, essential, and complementary to the
employment projects carried out by the Ministry during the past years.
• The recommendation to make greater efforts to improve the wages and job incentives in the public
and private sectors to a level commensurate with a decent standard of living. To implementing the
resolutions of the Council of Ministers, pillars to adequate and decent work for citizens have been
provided through the implementation of a project on improving the wages of the nationals holding
university degrees. In addition, a project was implemented on improving the wages of the nationals
working in the private sector. The number of the targeted university graduate workers reached 2203
worker, whereas the number of non-graduate national workers reached 20,919 workers, bringing
the total Bahraini workers targeted by the two projects to 23,122 workers.
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Issued on 24 July 2014 and came into force on 7 February 2015, and was published in the Official Gazette, annex of issue No. 3168 on
8 August 2014.
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