What you'll find inside
UPDATED FOR 2025
Fully indexed, this is the only book that annotates each article of the labor law, contains the hard to find implementing regulations as well as the current nitaqat ("ranges") table with an explanation. You'll find for the first time in English--both the new Domestic Servants law as well as the visa enforcement rules distributed to foreign embassies. The new Implementing Regulations are fully integrated into the text as well.
Every business should have a copy to use as a handy desk reference. Personnel officers in the Kingdom will find it similarly useful. Employees can use the book to learn their rights under the law. Learn about the End of Service Benefit, vacation pay, the importance of the labor contract, Saudiization and more. Explore visa and immigration issues, sponsorship, and what qualifies as a breach of a Saudi employment contract. This best-selling handbook on Saudi labor law is full of critical information for the new Saudi employee or the employer who seeks to recruit staff for the Kingdom.
For years, Saudi Arabia was a reliable source of jobs for workers from the Middle East and elsewhere.
This edition annotates the Labor Law's articles, notes what revisions have been made and places administrative executive regulations affecting an article immediately thereafter makes finding relevant law and procedures easy.
The fifth edition of this best-selling handbook on Saudi labor law is full of critical information for the new Saudi employee or the employer who employs staff in the Kingdom. This must-have new edition contains the April, 2015 amendments to the Labor Law, an annotated version of the Labor Law, the Implementing Regulations and a translation of the Domestic Servants Law.
If you are thinking of working in Saudi Arabia or if you hire workers in the Kingdom, you need this book. No other book like this is available on the market, either in English or Arabic.
Working and living in Saudi Arabia is unlike working anywhere else on the planet. This helpful text orients the new employee to a singular legal environment. It is also a handy reference for companies that employ workers in Saudi Arabia or anyone interested in examining the labor rules of one of the world's strongest economies.
Every company doing business in Saudi Arabia, every Saudi HR department, hiring manager or labor office needs to have a copy of this book.