Recent intelligence reports from one of Suede’s inside contacts
reveal some extremely unpalatable news about the new contracts that were
imposed on continuing HCT inmates earlier this month. Please read the following if you were one of those who were severely humiliated several weeks ago.
Firstly, it has been confirmed that all continuing employees
had to sign and approve the
contractual changes or be summarily dismissed, i.e. terminated without cause.
This move was taken by the HCT management to promote increasing loyalty and
deference amongst the remaining inmates.
The second point is already common knowledge, namely that
all existing education allowances have been reduced by half. As a result, many HCT staff with children will now
only send them to school part time, or will merely be developing one side of
the brain instead of both (as per HCT Emirati management).
Thirdly, a large number of employees were given summary termination notices, thus
making June 30 their last day of work. The three-week notice period is designed
to enable them to take a lengthy summer break, perhaps even extending into
January 2018, as they find it impossible to find new jobs in such a short period
of time.
Finally, there has been absolutely no evidence of consistency
from employee to employee in the benefits provided by the new contracts. For
some, it sucks big time: for a chosen few, it just sucks, period.
Now here’s the interesting bit regarding the above. The
law is very clear on terminating contracts, and summary termination is illegal
unless full severance pay is given.
Teachers must therefore be given six months full salary from the date they were
notified of termination, which was around June 1. Full salary for six months could
be around DH180,000. Regular staff should get three months.
Agent Z continues in person here…
For me it would have been a DH 234,000 loss. That is a LOT of money to just walk away from. The option for these
employees is to hire my lawyer. Because of my cases, my lawyer has a legal
history to use to help win other cases. After they do that and give him a POA,
they can leave the country if they wish. Plus, they can do it without
cancelling their HCT visa and risk being declared an absconder. My lawyer can
file a case against HCT with immigration so they would be blocked from filing
an absconding case. By leaving their visa uncancelled, they will get HCT in big
trouble with immigration, as they did in my case.
In short, leaving HCT without getting the due severance settlement would
be extremely foolish. Please tell everyone that
they can sue HCT and still leave the country, as long as they have given the
lawyer a power of attorney before they go.
Just
contact SuedeO here for the lawyer’s details.
suede.oasis@yahoo.com