The Ministry of Labor issued its annual report today on its efforts to resolve labor disputes and sign collective labor agreements for the year 2024.
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The ministry's spokesperson, Mohammad Al-Zayoud, stated that the number of collective labor agreements signed through the Ministry's Labor Relations Directorate in 2024 reached 31 agreements in sectors such as food industries, hotels, cement production, telecommunications, textiles, and electricity. Under these agreements, workers in these sectors received benefits that improved their work environment and living conditions.
He pointed out that the ministry, through the Labor Relations Directorate, handled 35 labor disputes in 2024, of which 29 were resolved through direct negotiations, two were resolved in the conciliation representative stage, and three disputes were resolved in the labor court stage.
One dispute was resolved in the minister's intervention stage, and one was concluded in the conciliation board stage. A labor dispute remains under process at the start of this year.
He noted that the number of internal regulations for labor unions and employers' associations deposited with the Ministry's Labor Relations Directorate was 13, and the directorate carried out 40 visits to these unions in 2024.
Al-Zayoud explained that a labor dispute goes through four stages according to the Labor Law to reach a resolution and reconcile between employers and employees in the private sector. These stages are as follows: The first stage is the ministry's conciliation representative stage. If a satisfactory solution is not reached for both parties, the dispute moves to the second stage, which is the minister's intervention. If the dispute is not resolved, it moves to the third stage, the Conciliation Board, chaired by the ministry.
The final stage for resolving any labor dispute between employees and employers is the Labor Court.
