Suede Oasis is extremely pleased to be able
to report the following case of an HCT employee who has already successfully won
one case against HCT and is currently waiting for the outcome of two others for
compensation and end of service benefits. The teacher’s lawyers are confident
that many of the things demanded will be awarded, especially a much better
calculation for the relevant end of service benefits.
What this means for current and previous
HCT employees is that, for those who were employed prior to 2013, the end of
service benefit had to be calculated using the full salary and benefits up to
2013. This is apparently due to an addendum to federal law that applied to
those in academia. After 2013, employees should have received 1.5 months of
their salary per year of service after five years, and 2 months’ salary per
year after 10 years.
Anyone who whips out their calculator and figures out what they should have gotten, and compares it with their actual end of service benefit, will see that the difference is large.
So what can you do?
Well, the lawyers concerned already know very
well how make a case for any exploited HCT teacher, even if you have signed
your end of service agreement and are now living outside the UAE. However, you do
need to file your case within a year of signing your end of service
agreement.
So, if you would like to take advantage of these lawyers’ expertise, please email me and I will pass on their contact details.
Finally, A few words direct from the employee concerned:
"This particular HCT victim would like to thank Taleb Obaid and Zakir Khan
of HCT Human Resources for creating the situation that brought all these legal
details about the correct calculation of HCT end of service benefits to light,
in fact to the benefit of all government and semi government academic
institution employees. At the same time this victim regrets the embarrassment
these two men have brought to the HCT, and the Federal Authority of Human
Resources, whose responsibility it was to provide oversight that would have prevented
all of this. This victim recommends that the government take a closer look at
individuals working for HCT HR who feel inclined to create and implement
policies that cause resentment from the employees. This series of events will
very likely result in additional lawsuits from other HCT victims as the news
gets out, so this victim recommends that all effort be made to settle such
cases out of court. The costs and the embarrassment would be less. Thanks
to Taleb Obaid and Zakir Khan, the government will be paying a lot more now in
end of service benefits."
