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Legal Visions, Healing Touch: Shaping the Future of Healthcare
The first Law Update of 2024 is here, and our first focus of the year spotlights Healthcare and Lifesciences, a sector that is undergoing significant growth and development across the MENA region.
Our focus provides an insight into some of the most important regulatory updates across the region, such as the UAE’s groundbreaking law on the use of human genome, Kuwait’s resolution on nuclear and radioactive materials, the new regulations for healthcare services in Qatar, Egypt’s healthcare regulatory framework, and the impact of the Saudi Civil Transactions Law on the healthcare and life sciences sector … and there is so much more!
Beyond the healthcare pages our lawyers share with you multi-sector insights where you will discover articles on Dubai’s DIFC regulatory framework for startups, Bahrain’s commercial agencies law, and we also shed light on Kuwaiti civil code and the advantages of setting up a joint stock company in Saudi Arabia.
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A complete spectrum of legal services across jurisdictions in the Middle East & North Africa.
The UAE Announces an Extension of the Deadline to Transition Employees to Fixed Term Contracts
On 2 February 2022, Federal Decree Law No. 33 of 2021 as amended (the “New Labour Law”) came into force which required all employees to be transitioned across from unlimited term contracts to fixed term contracts by 1 February 2023.
However, on 25 January 2023, the UAE government issued Ministerial Resolution No. 27 of 2023 (the “Resolution”), which extends the deadline from 1 February 2023 to 31 December 2023. This will be a welcome relief for many employers who are working around the clock to meet the original February deadline.
The Resolution will come into effect from the date of publication in the official gazette, which is yet to be confirmed.
Any employers who have not yet completed the migration to fixed term contracts should ensure they do so in good time before the end of the year.
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