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I am employed on an unlimited contract which requires me to give a three months' notice period to be served before resigning from employment. Can notice period and maternity leave be combined together? Upon completion of my maternity leave, can I resume work and resign after some time? Can I use my annual leave to cover up the notice period? If I do this, will it affect my gratuity?
Answer:
It should be noted that an employee has to perform work during the notice period. This is in accordance with Article 118 of the Federal Law No. 8 of 1980 regulating Employment Relations in the UAE (the 'Employment Law'), which states, "A contract shall continue to be valid throughout the period of notice referred to in the preceding article and shall terminate on the expiry of the notice period. The employee shall be entitled, in respect of the period of notice, to full pay calculated on the basis of his last remuneration and he shall be required to perform his work during that period if the employer so requests.
The parties may not agree to dispense with the requirement as to notice or to reduce the period of notice, but may agree to increase it."
Based on aforementioned provision of Employment Law, whenever an employee is on notice period he or she cannot avail other leaves. Therefore, you cannot merge maternity leave with your notice period. You may avail maternity leave and then resign from your employment after you resume your employment.
Your gratuity will not be affected if you comply with notice period as mentioned in the Employment Law while you resign from your employment if you have completed more than one year of continuous services with your current employer. This is in accordance with Article 132 of the Employment Law which states, "A worker who has completed a period of one or more years of continuous service shall be entitled to severance pay on the termination of employment. The days of absence from work without pay shall not be included in calculating the period of service. The severance pay shall be calculated as follows:
21 days remuneration for each year of the first 5 years of service;
30 days remuneration for each additional year of service provided that the aggregate amount of severance pay shall not exceed 2 years remuneration."
KNOW THE LAW
An employee shall be required to perform duty during notice period if the employer so requests. You cannot combine maternity leave with your notice period. Your gratuity will not be affected if you comply with notice period regulations.
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