180,000 riyals in Compensation for an Expat worker for his illegal termination and Huroob report
The Court of Appeal in Saudi Arabia issued a judgement to give compensation of 180,000 riyals to an expat worker, who was dismissed from job without a valid reason and reported Absent From Work (Huroob) on him, in order to deny his salary dues and end-of-service benefits.
The expatriate employee approached the Court of Appeal after his first instance Court rejected his lawsuit earlier. The Court of Appeal go to know that the organization dismissed the him without any valid reason and then submitted a malicious report in the Labor office that the worker was absent from work, with the intent of harming him and denying his salary dues and allowances.
- The court in its verdict ordered to pay compensation of the damage suffered by the worker, which includes his expenses, his family expenses and the house rent during the period of termination and his lawyer fee. Read : A worker has right to claim his end-of-service benefits upon termination of his contract
- The Saudi Gazette report revealed that the compensation ruling came after a similar verdict was issued by an administrative appeals court that obligated the organization to pay all salary dues for the remaining of the contract period for terminating the worker without a valid reason.
- Earlier, the worker approached the First Instance Court, seeking 1 million in compensation for the harm caused to him because of his termination from job, 8 months before the expiry of his contract period and reporting him Huroob so as to reject his salary dues and allowances.
- However, the First Instance Court dismissed the lawsuit and later he approached Administrative Court of Appeal. In his lawsuit, he pleaded that he was sacked in violation of Article 77 of Saudi Labor Law, 8 months before the expiry of the labor contract and the employer rejected his transfer and reported Absent From Work, with the intention of denying him of salary dues and allowances. The Court found that the report submitted by the employer at the Labor Office was a malicious against the worker and so, it revoked the report of Huroob. See Also : Saudi Labor Law rejects discrimination in employment
- The worker in his petition stated that since the malicious report of him in the labor office, he remained unemployed and was unable to either transfer his sponsorship or renew his iqama for a period of 22 months. He noted that this caused material, moral and psychological damage to him and his family. He specifically highlighted the inability of his daughter, who was studying outside Saudi Arabia, to reenter the Kingdom due to the expiry of her iqama.
