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25 Oct 2017

Author:
Qatar News Agency (QNA)

Cabinet holds regular meeting

The cabinet ratified a draft law on the establishment of a fund for workers' support and insurance. According to the provisions of the bill, a fund called "the workers' support and insurance fund" is to be created...the fund aims to provide sustainable financial resources for the support and insurance of workers and pay the workers' dues ordered by dispute resolution committees before collecting the expenses from the employer.

...[T]he cabinet approved the amendment of Article 7 of Law No. 21 of 2015 on the regulation of the entry and departure of expats, amended as Law No. 1 of 2017, regarding the specifying of the mechanism of the exit of workers who fall under the jurisdiction of the labor law issued as Law No. 14 of 2004 and the laws that amended it.

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