Moving to a new country has its own stresses and hurdles, it isn’t as easy as it sounds. Every years thousands of expats move to Qatar for the purposes of employment, however, in the recent times changes have been made to many rules that in one way or another affect expats such as the Kafala Law.
Moving to new place entails a lot of planning, sorting out relevant documents, adapting to a new environment and then socialising with a whole bunch of new people, the experience can be hectic to say the least.
Today we bring you a list of things that new expats must know while trying to adjust to life in Qatar. Here’s the list:
1. Employment of expats in Qatar would now be entirely governed by contracts.
2. The post-residency restrictions have been scrapped, the previous restrictions imposed a two-year ban on a new work visa; such restrictions will no longer be legal.
3. No approval from former employer if he is recruited by a new employer.
4. Worker who has got a new contract to work in Qatar can come back even on the next day.
5. Exit permit will not be required for travel it will become invalid with enforcement of new law.
6. To leave country employee needs to inform his employer before three days and apply through in Metrash 2 system.
7. All employment contracts of all expatriate workers who are already here will be replaced with new contracts by the end of this year.
8. Date he has signed the fresh employment contract will be the date from his contract would be counted.
9. Employment contract has to be approved by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
10. Closed contracts shall not exceed a period of five years.
11. Employees with Open-ended contracts can move to another employer after spending a minimum of five years with the first employer.
12. Workers with fixed job contracts can change their work and sign new contracts if they wish so at the end of the contract period without any NOC but approval from the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
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