The Secretary General of the General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions, “Karim Ridha”, announced that Article 110 in the Labour Law No. 36 of 2012 there is badly exploited, regarding the dismissal of workers in case of the presence of one of the four reasons, namely changing the production system, reducing the activities, total or partial closure, that may affect the number of employees.
The article states that in this case, the worker shall be entitled to compensation equivalent to half the compensation mentioned in the next article, article 111, concerning the arbitrary dismissal, i.e. the compensation of the worker with the equivalent of 12 days per year, not less than one month's salary and not more than six months' wages.
In a media statement, “Karim Ridha” described this compensation as very cheap, especially when it comes to workers who have spent more than 10 years working, or workers who are still young and have no share from pensions, because they have not completed the required period of work to be qualified for the pension.
He also called on facing this article, which has no guarantees that would confirm the commitment of companies to prove their real need to reduce the number of employees, citing the current situation of two important companies: Gulf Air and "Bapco". In addition, he called on the Ministry of Labour and Social Development to vigorously address the exploitation of this article, which was meant to protect the institutions and workers, however, it has become a corrupt law imposed on the livelihood of thousands of workers.
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