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Issue No 48, August 2007 |
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MoL clarifies that NOC must for transfer of sponsorship for employment
Recent reports quote Mr. Humaid bin Deemas, Assistant Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Labor that workers seeking transfer of sponsorship will now have to furnish a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the previous company.
The reports quote Mr. Bin Deemas further as follows: The condition of acquiring an NOC was reintroduced seven months ago. It had been in place previously but was discontinued early last year.
Without the NOC, the employee will have to take a forced break of six months.
In other words, the worker will be banned from working for six months.
With the NOC in hand, the worker or his new sponsoring company can approach the authorities concerned to regularize his status.
NOC is the green light for starting the series of procedures for a new work permit. If the worker starts his job with the new company without the NOC he will be subjected to a one year ban.
When an employee finds a new job opportunity and wants to quit his current job, he will have to first approach the typing office at MoL with an application of transfer of sponsorship.
The fees of this application depend on the applicant’s profession and the category of the new company.
The Ministry’s approval of the request is to be followed by the approval of the ex-sponsor, which implies the NOC.
Then the applicant should go once again to MoL to pay Dh5,000
fee for transfer of sponsorship and apply for a new labor card.
The new sponsoring company has to bear these expenses.
After the results of the medical test, MoL transfers the employee’s file from the old company to the new one.
It also sends a letter of notification to the Dubai
Naturalization and Residency Department.
NOC was not restricted to a particular category of workers. The applicant seeking sponsorship transfer will not have to leave UAE. Only when the labor card is cancelled and no job opportunity is available, the person in question has to leave within 30 days.
Otherwise, he will be considered an illegal. Within that 30 day deadline, if the person finds a job and wants to stay in the country, he can pay the so called departure fee. It spares him from going out of UAE.
A visit visa holder could also convert his visa into an employment visa after paying the departure fee. |
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