12 companies commit not to lay off national workers in Oman

Energy Tuesday 19/May/2020 12:13 PM
By: Times News Service
12 companies commit not to lay off national workers in Oman

Muscat: Ministry of Manpower announced that 12 companies have reversed their decision to lay off national workers.

Ministry of Manpower said in a statement: "The committee formed to look into the issues of ending services of national workforce in the private sector establishments held a meeting that discussed the work done by the governorates work teams. The teams met with 15 companies, 12 of which committed to not ending the services of the national workforce and 3 companies that did not respond. The committee will take legal measures against it."

The committee also decided to transfer complaints from companies regarding reducing wages and decided to send work teams to sit with the company and union representatives to reach an appropriate solution between workers and employers.