If You're TERMINATED or RESIGNED Before Finishing Your CONTRACT in Qatar You're Entitled For THESE BENEFITS!

Legal

Resignation or Termination after One Year before finishing your Contract Term

Discuss the matter with employer and seek assistance from the Labour Department as the worker may not waive his entitlement to the annual leave and any agreement to the contrary shall be void.

QUESTION:

I resigned my last job 3 months before the end of my two-year contract. Since I didn’t complete my contract, my company said I am not entitled for gratuity. Is this true?

ANSWER:

Article (51) of Labour Law provides that “The worker may terminate the work contract before its termination if its period is determined, without informing the employer, if its period is undetermined, in keeping his total rights of the end of service compensation, in each of the following cases:

If the employer fails to fulfill his obligations decided in the work contract or upon this law.
If the employer or the acting manager makes a physical aggression or any immoral act against the worker or his family members.
If the employer or his representative cheated the worker at the time of contract concerning the work conditions.
If there exists a severe danger that threatens the safety of the worker, or his health in condition that the employer knows about the danger and doesn’t work on eliminating it.

QUESTION:

Does the Labour Law state that annual round-trip ticket to home country is a mandatory benefit?

ANSWER:

The Qatari labour law did not regulate issuing tickets for annual leave.  On the other hand the sponsor shall undertake repatriate the sponsored person upon the expiry or cancellation of the residence permit or upon deportation order.  Accordingly, annual leave tickets are subject to the administrative aspects of each company separately and are subject to the agreement between the worker and the company operates.

QUESTION:

After how many years of service is an employee entitled for an annual ticket back home?

ANSWER:

Initially the employer is not entitled for an annual ticket, unless the employment contract provides that. However, as matter of practice the employee is entitled for an annual leave for not less than 3 weeks for the employee who served less than five years and 4 weeks for the employee who served for five years or more.