Heirs of female employees in Oman eligible for retirement pension

Muscat: The heirs of female employees in Oman cannot be deprived of retirement pension, the Minister of Labour emphasised.

His Excellency the Minister of Labor, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Civil Service Employees Retirement Fund, said in his response to the Shura Council’s inquiry about depriving heirs of an employee of retirement pension: “The Law on Post-Service Pensions and Benefits for Omani Government Employees is equal for men and women subject to its provisions in pension rights, and the law has not included provisions that deprive the heirs of an Omani female employee, in the event of her death, from obtaining pension rights.”