and in the mail yesterday…

20082Apr

by Grace

Good News! IT’S THE RIGHT TIME TO WORK IN THE GULF!

Hot news in ‘Gulf News’

In UAE, all private companies need to give minimum of 15 % salary increment to all employees every six months as per latest bill passed.

Finance Minister, has approved and it comes to immediate effect from 1st April 2008, which is after the financial period March month. This comes as a relief to petitioners appealing against the growing work hours in UAE industry without a proper system to check overtime. The bill also mentions that all employees be provided 20 days of casual leave every year.

For more information, please see the attached file.

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I was nodding and nodding in agreement, and then I clicked the attached file

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1 Robin April 2, 2008 at 12:14 pm

I suspected that’s what it was. What a letdown LOL.

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2 jen April 2, 2008 at 6:31 pm

Well. That stinks. Woulda been nice, though!

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3 mama meji April 2, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Hahah… I was about to say, good for you…great news..

Oh well, la man pod mo tax dira so it’s still big bucks come payday time.

Makimeji

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4 jennifer in OR April 2, 2008 at 9:41 pm

hmmm. Too good to be true. :neutral:

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5 kailani April 2, 2008 at 10:15 pm

What a bummer! I was thinking it would be a great thing!

I got sucked into an internet April Fool’s joke, too. I believed that Jennifer Aniston was pregnant. hee hee

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6 shiera April 7, 2008 at 9:36 pm

20 days of casual leave?
wow! I’m definitely moving there. hehe

…and don’t forget the free roundtrip ticket along with the 30 days paid leave every year!

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7 RennyBA April 7, 2008 at 10:50 pm

Thanks for your contribution and for letting me know. I’ve updated my post on the April Fool’s collection of course:
http://www.terella.no/2008/04/01/april-fools-day-in-norway/

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