“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.		Employees who work from home based on the instructions of the Employer shall be eligible for full benefit provided by Employer. Employee who has completed probation and three months is entitled for sick leave of not more than 90 days either continuous or intermittent per each year or service. Benefits of such employees shall be calculated as follows: a)     Full pay for the first fifteen days b)     Half pay for the next thirty days c)     Without pay for the subsequent period. Important: The Government yet to announce notification regarding quarantine of employees due to COVID,19. Above given is purely based on UAE Laws.	UAE Labour Laws Eligible employees who has been quarantined by the demand of the employer shall be entitled for the full benefit in first 15 days. Half pay for the next thirty days and without pay for the rest. Special notification upon the context of COVID 19 yet to be announced.