Insight Category: Regulatory & Legal Updates
Increased insurance cost due to fires in towers means high prices for flat owners. Dubai: Billions of dirhams in losses from a spate of spectacular skyscraper fires in Dubai and Sharjah have prompted insurance companies to increase premiums on building owner associations and managing developers four fold, heard delegates at the Smart Skyscrapers Summit in… Continue reading Building fires send insurance cost through the roof...
You know how you sometimes feel bad enough to not go to work but know that you just have avirus that your body will work through so don’t make the effort to go to the doctor? Well, a new Dubai Health Authority (DHA) regulation might make that difficult. The regulation states that employees in Dubai… Continue reading This is going to change how you take sick leave in Dubai...
Yes, 2017 is the Year of Giving, but where do you stand legally when it comes to charity and helping out in the UAE? 2017 is the Year of Giving in the UAE – a year where we are encouraged, quite rightly, to help those around us as much as we can. But how to… Continue reading What Are The Laws When It Comes To Charity and Volunteering In The UAE...
Analysis Offset obligations (“Offsets”) are required by most of the GCC governments from their foreign service and product providers (“Contractors”). In short, as a matter of public policy, GCC governments will never contract with foreign corporate entities without any specific offset agreement which will provide an economic benefit from their expenditure. This article, explores the… Continue reading Warning to Contractors Dealing with GCC Governments...
Click here to view the article in PDF. The importation of meat and poultry products into Gulf Cooperation Council (“GCC”) nations, and other Islamic countries, is big business. One issue that has caused uncertainty in this important international market segment, is the necessity to obtain proper Halal Certification of the imported products. This article explores… Continue reading Halal Certification And The Need To Set Unified International Standards...