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Labourers paid less than AED2,000 per month will enjoy free accommodation offered by the employers says the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation. However, the decree only applies to establishments hiring over 50 workers. According to a statement issued by Saqr Ghobash, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, the decree will come into force this coming
December.
The decree confirms that labour accommodations with less than five hundred tenants must meet general criteria and services standards as stipulated in a Ministerial Decree issued in 2014, similarly, the above applies for areas that house over 500 tenants according to the decree issued by the Cabinet
in 2009.