JEDDAH — An employee in the private sector is entitled to have five-day leave with full pay for his marriage or in case of the death of his wife or one of the parents or children. This is one of the provisions in the amended Labor Law, which will come into force on Oct. 8, the Ministry of Labor announced. According to the new law, there will be three-day leave in the event of the death of a newborn baby. In such cases, the employer can ask the employee to produce a documentary evidence for the same. There is a strict provision in the law that forbids an employee to stay on at work place for more than 12 hours. There should be 30-minute break after every five-hour work and this could be either for taking rest or eating food or performing prayer. Those firms with more than 50 employees shall facilitate training for Saudis, equal to 12 percent of the total staff, and those who have completed studies abroad could be included among these Saudis. According to the amended law, daily wage workers shall be given their wage every week, and as for part time daily wage workers, their wage shall be disbursed at least every two week. An employee cannot be transferred to another place, which is not in the city of his residence, without obtaining a written consent from him.
