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Law No. 14 of 2004 on the promulgation of Labour Law

Law Summary Record Type: LawNumber: 14Date: 19/05/2004 Corresponding to 30/03/1425 HijriNumber of Articles: 150Status: In force

Official Gazette :Issue: 9Offcial Journal Issue Publication Date: 06/07/2004 Corresponding to 19/05/1425 HijriPage from: 229

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Joint Committees, Collective Negotiation and Joint Agreements

124 Article

Any Establishment where thirty or more Workers are working may form a "joint committee" embodying representatives of the Employer and Workers.

Members of the joint committee shall be four in number if the number of the Workers of the Establishment is two hundred or less, and shall be six if the number of the Workers is more than two hundred and less than five hundred, and shall be eight if the number of the Workers is five hundred or more. Half of the members shall represent the Employer and the other half shall represent the Workers.
125 Article

The Employer shall nominate his representatives in the committee from amongst the Workers who legally represent him or to whom he delegates some of his management powers.

The nomination of the representatives of the Workers shall be as follows:
1. If there is a “workers' committee” in the Establishment, it shall undertake choosing of the Workers for the joint committee from among its members.
2. If there is no “workers' committee” in the Establishment, the Workers of the Establishment shall undertake choosing of their representatives for the joint committee by way of direct election.
The Minister shall issue a resolution regulating the terms and procedures of this election.
126 Article

The joint committee shall undertake the study and discussion of all the matters related to the Work in the Establishment, in particular:
1. Regulation of the work.
2. Means of increasing and developing the production and enhancing the productivity.
3. Training programmes for the Workers.
4. Means of protection from dangers and the improvement of the standards of compliance with the rules of occupational health and safety.
5. Development of the general culture of the Workers.
6. Development of the level of social services in the Establishment.
7. Hearing of the individual and collective disputes and attempting the amicable settlement thereof.
The committee shall submit its recommendations on these matters to the Employer to consider the possibility of execution.
127 Article

The Employers and Workers shall have the right to conduct collective negotiation and conclude common agreements on all of the matters related to the Work.

The Minister shall issue an order regulating the rules and procedures of collective negotiations, the method of representation of the parties therein, and the rules regulating the common agreements, with regard to conclusion, content, joining them, periods thereof, interpretation, and the disputes that arise upon the execution thereof.