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360 breaches of outdoor work ban in 3 months

Latest News Kuwait City 04 Sep 22
360 breaches of outdoor work ban in 3 months
Kuwait: 360 breaches of outdoor work ban in 3 months.
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Kuwait, Kuwait
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Kuwait City
Start Time
04 September 2022, 12:00 AM
End Time
30 September 2022, 12:00 AM
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Labour teams in Kuwait have wrapped up their field tours of work sites to ensure compliance with a ban on summer noon outdoor labour and registered a total of 360 breaches in three months, a government agency has said.

The ban is seasonal in the Arab Gulf countries, home to large communities of migrant workers, in summer when the mercury shoots up. The restriction aims at protecting workers from heat stress.
The annual ban went into effect in Kuwait on June 1 daily from 11am to 4pm running till August 31.

The management of the National Center for Occupational Health and Safety at the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) said that its noon work team managed to monitor ten cases of workers violating a prevention notification in the residential city of Al-Mutlaa.

The head of the work team, Hamad Al-Makhial, told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on Monday that the outcome of the inspection campaigns carried out by the team on the sites exceeded 450 sites, in addition to giving about 600 workers notices to avoid a violation, as their companies settled their situations later to avoid a fine.

In the past 10 days, inspection tours of 20 workplaces exposed 20 such breaches committed by non-compliant businesses, Al Anba newspaper quoted PAM as saying.

A notification is initially issued for the violating employer of the ban to stop the infringement and comply with a one-day grace period, labour officials said.

Another inspection tour of the same site is conducted. If the violation is repeated, the employer’s record is closed and a fine of KD100 per worker is levied.


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