Doha: President of the Supreme Judicial Council H E Dr. Hassan bin Lahdan Al Hassan Al Mohannadi and Minister of Labour H E Dr. Ali bin Smaikh Al Marri inaugurated yesterday the headquarters of the new dispute settlement committees at the Supreme Judicial Council building in the Industrial Area.
The opening of the headquarters of the dispute settlement committees in the Industrial Area comes within the framework of the efforts of both the Supreme Judicial Council and the Ministry of Labour to facilitate workers’ accessibility and streamlining judicial proceedings for workers and the speed of their completion in a short time under one threshold, in addition to ensuring the continuity of all judicial committees’ work procedures in a normal and accurate manner, and continuing to perform their entrusted tasks, especially during the Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup.
Dr. Al Marri highlighted that the Ministry attaches great importance to the committees for settling labour disputes because of their positive impact in resolving the majority of labour complaints, pointing out that the opening of new Labour committees in the Industrial Area will facilitate the accessibility to the committees during the period of time while organising the World Cup.
The Minister explained that during the first half of this year, the dispute settlement committees received about 4,121 cases.
He stressed that Qatar has implemented a set of reforms in the labour sector to strike a balance between employers and workers, pointing out that it continues to adopt a sustainable approach in improving and modernizing work environment legislation in the coming years.
The new dispute settlement committees in the Industrial Area will start receiving labour complaints as of the beginning of November, after increasing the number of committees to five, two at the ministry’s headquarters in Burj Al Huda in Al Dafna area, and three new committees in the Industrial.
The new headquarters includes the presence of a judgment enforcement teams in the same building, which facilitates the procedures for implementing judgments and decisions issued by the labour dispute settlement committees, in addition to choosing the headquarters near labour gatherings in the Industrial Area for easy access by the largest segment of society.
