Okaz/Saudi Gazette
RIYADH — The Qiwa platform, underneath the Ministry of Human Assets and Social Improvement (MHRSD) has diminished the probation interval of staff to 90 days.
The platform amended the supply within the column for digital documentation of labor contracts pertaining to the probation interval. As per the modification, the utmost interval of probation is 90 days as an alternative of 180 days, in accordance with the Labor Regulation. Article 53 of the Labor Regulation stipulates that “within the occasion that the employee was topic to a probationary interval, it shouldn’t exceed 90 days.”
This modification was made after employers dedicated a mistake in setting the probation interval to 180 days whereas documenting employment contracts via the platform. The provisions of the Labor Regulation harassed that if each events to the contractual relationship want to prolong the probation interval to 180 days, this should be carried out by a written settlement between them after beginning to implement the employment contract throughout the validity of the unique probation interval, as stipulated in Article 20 of the Govt Rules of the Labor Regulation.
It’s noteworthy that the Ministry of Human Assets and Social Improvement introduced the beginning of the third section of documenting contracts, and obligating institutions to doc 80 % of worker contracts via the Qiwa platform, till the tip of final month.
The platform indicated that some digital companies will likely be suspended for institutions that aren’t dedicated to documenting 80 % of worker contracts within the first section, which ended within the third quarter of the yr 2023. Probably the most outstanding of those suspended companies included on the spot visas, switch of companies, and requests to vary professions. This comes after the ministry determined to oblige institutions to doc the contracts of all workers electronically via the platform.
The Qiwa platform supplies the MHRSD’s companies and options to reinforce the digital companies offered to the native employment sector.