Decision Number (8) of 2013 concerning regulating occupational safety inside the installations,
Decision Number (12) of 2013 concerning notifying about injuries and occupational illnesses, and
Decision Number (31) of 2013 to prevent the risks of electricity.
11. This is in addition to the International Labour Organization convention Number (155) of 1981
concerning Occupational Safety and Health and the Working Environment to which acceded
the Government in accordance with Law Number (25) of 2009, and all the foregoing in its totality
constitutes a system for providing occupational safety related to risks and injuries materializing
during work.
12. The Resolution of the Ministry of Labour and Social Development number (3) of 2013 concerning
prohibiting work at noon, is considered among the most prominent decisions related to promoting
and protecting the rights of expatriate labour, given that it provides for prohibiting the work of
workers particularly in the construction contracting field under the sunrays and in outdoor places
during the period between noon and four o’clock in the afternoon in summertime, in view of what is
experienced by the Kingdom during this season in terms of hot weather and high levels of humidity,
which is what could expose those workers to risks as a result of heat exhaustion and exposure to
sun strokes and collapsing during work, and it is permissible for the competent ministry to adopt
all the legal measures concerning the companies and institutions in breach of the provisions of this
Decision.
13. As to the rights of the household expatriate Workers, and whereas the provisions of the Labour Law
in the private sector enacted pursuant to Law Number (36) of 2012 excludes domestic workers from
being subject to it, with the exception of some articles which addressed some rights, this impels the
National Institution to alert to the importance of the existence of legalization regulating their affairs
and the affairs of the labour recruitment agencies and the rights and obligations of each party.
14. The mentioned call of the National Institutions consecrates the principle of equality and human
dignity for all the workers including household expatriate Workers, such on an equal footing with
the national workers without discrimination on grounds of gender or religion or colour or language
or creed or origin, where the need has become urgent for a legal system that guarantees to those two
segments dignified living and necessary protection against any risk to which they may be exposed,
where it is necessary to concede to them a number of rights and privileges at all levels, which are no
different than those enjoyed by national workers, particularly in the fields of the necessary social,
legal, security and health protection.
15. Whereas it is incumbent for any concerned quarter, whether employee or employer, or who
deputizes for them to refer to the Ministry of Labour and Social Development in any labour dispute
which could arise between the two parties, such to fulfil the rights of the disputants, particularly
since this consulting service is rendered by arbiters and specialists with experience and knowledge
in resolving labour disputes, and in accordance with the Law of Labour in the private sector issued
by virtue of Law Number (36) of 2012 and the relevant ministerial decisions.
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