Ministry of Labour detects over 450 violations in July

Qatar Ministry of Labour had detected 473 violations in July 2022 during rigorous inspection campaigns to monitor the extent to which establishments comply with the laws and ministerial decisions concerned with regulating the labour market in the country.

The bulletin added that the Labour Relations Department received 2,232 complaints from the facility’s workers against the facility, of which 211 were settled, and 827 complaints were referred to the labour dispute settlement committees, leaving approximately 1,194 complaints under the procedure.

The ministry carried out 3,693 inspection visits in various regions of the country. This came in the monthly statistical bulletin for the month of July 2issued by the Ministry of Labour.

In terms of inspection visits to recruitment offices, the statistical bulletin showed that the ministry carried out about 34 inspection rounds on recruitment offices, which resulted in sending alerts to about 7 offices.

In this context, the bulletin showed that the ministry received about 4,692 new recruitment requests, of which 2,680 were approved, and 2012 were rejected, while the total number of requests to modify the profession was about 3,422 requests, 2,641 requests were approved and 781 requests were rejected.

The number of requests for work permits submitted to the ministry during the month of July was about 822, including 287 requests to renew the permit, 379 requests to issue a new permit, and 156 requests to cancel issued permits.