Purpose

Saudi Arabia recently amended the Labour Law provisions governing the unfair dismissal of employees in the private sector. The previous version of the legislation, which had been in force for many years, had entitled employees to demand reinstatement or make a claim for fair financial compensation equal to the damages sustained. The recent amendments eliminated the right of a dismissed employee to seek reinstatement and also revised the rules relating to monetary compensation. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse and evaluate the new approach, which has been criticized heavily. In addition, it suggests feasible alternative ways to handle unfair employee dismissal, which can be incorporated into the current Saudi Labour Law.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper presents an analysis of the existing approach to dealing with unfair employee termination in the Saudi Labour Law. It is based mainly on information collected from various legal materials, such as books, review of judgments issued by the Commission for the Settlement of Labour Disputes in Saudi Arabia and relevant Islamic rules.

Findings

The results of this examination clearly show that there are several flaws in the current approach to dealing with the issue of unfair dismissal of employees. To correct this situation, workable approaches have been suggested for possible consideration and incorporation into the Saudi Labour Law.

Originality/value

To the author’s knowledge, this is the first academic study to analyse the current approach to handling unfair employee dismissal in the Saudi Labour Law.

中文翻译：

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评估沙特《劳动法》中有关不公平解雇员工的变更

目的

沙特阿拉伯最近修改了《劳动法》中有关不公平解雇私营部门雇员的规定。这项已生效多年的前一版法律授权雇员要求恢复原状，或要求雇员索取与其遭受的损失相等的公平的经济补偿。最近的修正案消除了被解雇的雇员寻求恢复工作的权利，还修订了与金钱赔偿有关的规则。本文的目的是对新方法进行批判性分析和评估，该方法受到了广泛的批评。此外，它提出了处理不正当员工解雇的可行替代方法，这些方法可以纳入当前的《沙特劳工法》中。

设计/方法/方法

本文对《沙特劳动法》中处理不正当解雇员工的现有方法进行了分析。它主要基于从各种法律材料中收集到的信息，例如书籍，沙特阿拉伯解决劳资纠纷委员会发布的判决以及有关的伊斯兰法规。

发现

这项检查的结果清楚地表明，当前处理雇员不公平解雇问题的方法存在一些缺陷。为了纠正这种情况，建议了可行的方法，以供可能的考虑并纳入《沙特劳动法》。

创意/价值

就作者所知，这是第一项对沙特《劳动法》中处理不正当雇员解雇的当前方法进行分析的学术研究。