“ELIGIBLE FOR SICK LEAVE”
Newsletter Chanakyatse Consultancy www.chanakyatse.com || consultant@chanakyatse.com|| Vol:1 Issue 1 19/3/2020 “Are YOU quarantined?” “ELIGIBLE FOR SICK LEAVE” To break the chain of epidemic Covid 19, many UAE employers call employees to be quarantined in home for short time periods preventing from work. Such employees are entitled for payments of ‘Sick Leaves’ under the Federal Law No.8 of 1980, generally called as ‘Labour Law’. Article 82 of Labour Law provides that if the employee falls sick, he must report his illness within a period of two days at most. The employer is obliged to take necessary steps to ascertain employee’s illness. He can demand employee to be quarantined for certain number of days to prevent uncontrolled dissemination of the illness. Due to the apprehension of spreading Covid 19, it is recommended to stay at home avoiding continuation of the chain. Employee...