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The number of workers who participated in the awareness campaign of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has increased by 35% beyond the target set for the year 2018; the number of participants rose from 100,000 to 135,000 workers spread over 19 labour villages in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafrah regions.
Yousef Saeed Al Abri, ADJD Undersecretary, stressed that ADJD workers’ awareness campaign, launched in 2018, has achieved its objectives, which are to promote the propagation of legal culture amongst workers and brief them about their rights and duties guaranteed by UAE law. This comes based on the directives of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, and Chairman of the Judicial Department, to achieve the strategic priority of contributing to maintaining security through sustainable participation with all components of the community.
Al Abri emphasised the importance of awareness campaigns to introduce workers’ to their rights, duties and obligations, the situations that deserve to be brought to the labour courts and ways of amicable settlement of complaints. This contributed to the decrease in the number of complaints and labour cases during the ongoing year 2018, by 42% compared to the same period last year.
, as cases dropped from 16,897 cases in 2017 to 9,979 cases in 2018.