Ramadan Work Schedule...

Ramadan work hours apply to ‘all employees’

Publish Date: Tuesday,5 September, 2006, at 09:45 AM Doha Time

Faisal al-Emadi

Staff Reporter

ALL companies operating in Qatar have to comply with the law stipulating that working hours during Ramadan should not exceed six hours a day, Labour Department assistant director Faisal al-Emadi said yesterday.

Clarifying a point, the official said this was applicable to both fasting and non-fasting workers.

Under Qatar’s Labour Law, the maximum working hours during Ramadan, the holy fasting month of Islam, should be 36 hours spread over six days of a week at the rate of six hours per day, al-Emadi told Gulf Times.

"Surprise checks will be conducted to enforce the law during the holy month of Ramadan and legal action will be taken against the violators," al-Emadi said.

"Workers who are forced to work more than six hours can approach the Labour Department," he said.

Al-Emadi recently told Gulf Times that companies which impose 12-hour-long shifts are violating Qatar’s Labour Law.

"According to the law, the maximum working hours shall be 48 hours a week at the rate of eight hours per day. However, workers may be required to work additional hours provided that the actual working hours do not exceed 10 hours a day."

According to the senior Labour Department official, companies which are under pressure to complete jobs within a stipulated time should deploy workers in three shifts of eight hours rather than 12-hour-long shifts, particularly in the harsh climatic conditions during summer."

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Ramadan hours

Working hours during Ramadan should not exceed eight hours, including two hours of overtime, Labour Inspection Department director Mohamed Saeed al-Naimi said. “This law applies to Muslims and non-Muslims alike,” he added.

Qatar Labor Law

Part Seven

Regulation of the Working Hours and Leave

Article (73)

The maximum ordinary working hours shall be 48 hours per week at the rate of 8 hours per day with the exception of the month of Ramadan when the maximum working hours shall be 36 hours per week at the rate of 6 hours per day.

me too. im working 7 hours

Hey,

This is what i read - So just passing it on to u

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Six-hour work rule not binding: QCCI

Web posted at: 8/21/2009 7:11:33

Source ::: THE PENINSULA/ By Joyce C AbaÑo and ABDULLA ABDULRAHMAN

DOHA: With Ramadan just a day away, the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry (QCCI), the representative body of the private sector, has said it is not mandatory for companies covered by the labour law to reduce daily working hours to six during the holy month.

But the Ministry of Labour emphatically maintains that working hours in private establishments must be reduced to six during the fasting month and the rule is applicable to both Muslim and non-Muslim employees.

According to the QCCI, the daily working hours are decided by the job contract an employee has signed with a private company.

“People need to work strictly in accordance with the agreement they have signed with their employer. If the contract mentions that one has to work for six hours during Ramadan, one should work for that duration,” said Abdul Aziz Al Emadi, Vice-Chairman of QCCI.

“Whether it is Ramadan or not, a private sector employee needs to put in as many hours of work daily as specified in the job contract,” Al Emadi reiterated.

But a senior official of the Ministry of Labour, Abdullah Al Mohannadi, told this newspaper in response to a question that as per Qatar’s labour law a private sector employee should work for only six hours during the fasting month.

Refusing to answer further questions on whether the six-hour rule was applicable to both Muslim and non-Muslim private sector employees and if the labour department conducted raids on firms to ensure compliance with the six-hour rule, he reiterated: “Even if your contract specifies that your working hours are eight or 10 a day, during Ramadan you can just work for six hours and leave.”

And there is no need for one’s job contract to specify that daily working hours during Ramadan will be six, he added.

But Al Emadi insisted that private entities go strictly by the terms and conditions regarding working hours specified in their employees’ job agreements.

Meanwhile, a large multinational company that is new to Qatar said it was applying the six-hour working rule during Ramadan with respect to all its employees.

“As it is, we have flexible working hours for our employees… Since we have operations in many Muslim countries we are aware of the work schedule during Ramadan,” the company’s CEO said

Ramadan hours are essentially for Muslims.

Good Luck with that!

my company too makes us work from 9 - 6.

I will keep reading on this to get updated. Hope people give advise