Qatar Labor Law: The Disciplinary Power of The Employer

An employer employing ten workers or more shall make penalties regulations specifying the violations and the penalties to be inflicted on the workers who commit these violations and the conditions and procedures for the infliction thereof.

The Minister may, by a Decision, issue models for such disciplinary regulations in accordance with the nature of the work for the guidance of the employers in the preparation of their own regulations.

The employer shall post these regulations at the place of work for the perusal thereof by the workers. The regulations shall only come into force upon the lapse of fifteen days from the date of their being posted up. – (Qatar Labor Law: Article 58)

The disciplinary penalties which may be inflicted on the workers are:

1. Notification, which shall be deemed to have been achieved by a written letter to the worker containing a notification of the violation he has committed and requesting him not to repeat the commission thereof and warning him of the infliction of a severer penalty in case of repetition.

2. Deduction from the wage of the worker for a period not exceeding five days in respect of one violation.

3. Suspension from work together with non-payment of the wage for a period not exceeding five days in respect of one violation.

4. Suspension from work without payment or with reduced payment pending the adjudication upon the criminal charge attributed to the worker and if the worker is acquitted or if the charge against him has been dropped the suspension shall be deemed to have never taken place and the worker shall be paid his entitlements during the suspension period.

5. Postponement of the grant of annual increment for a period not exceeding six months or the non-payment therefrom in the establishments which maintain increments systems.

6. Postponement of promotion for a period not exceeding one year in the establishments which maintain promotion systems.

7. Dismissal from work with payment of the end of service gratuity.

8. Dismissal from work and non-payment of the end of service gratuity.  – (Qatar Labor Law: Article 59)

The sums which may be deducted from the wage of the worker in execution of penalties inflicted on him and the other deductions therefrom shall not exceed his wage for five days per month.

The employer shall record the total penalties inflicted on the worker in the register of the total penalties. The said register shall contain the name of the worker and the amount of deductions and the reason for the infliction and date of the penalty. The said register shall be subject to the inspection of the Work Inspection Organ.

The outcome of the deductions to be inflicted on the workers shall vest in the body which shall be specified by a Decision of the Minister. The Decision shall specify the manner of disposal of the deductions. –  (Qatar Labor Law: Article 60)