If bereavement leave occurrence during annual leave the employee’s annual leave may be extended for a period equivalent to bereavement leave days or the bereavement leave added to the annual leave balance.

Employees who have achieved an overall performance of "Needs Improvement" only are allowed to appeal against the results of performance appraisal according to grievance mechanism described in Employee Performance Management System in the federal government.

There is nothing to prevent sending new employees (within probation period) in formal courses and programs or training missions if the required  training is closely related to the job duties of the new employees and aimed at developing their skills and competencies.

Year: It is the Calendar year that is 12 months

Month: Time unit equal to 30 days

Day: It is the official working day where federal ministries and entities carry out regular business and is determined as seven work hours per day or 36 work hours per week.

Employees on official duties outside the country are not entitled to compensation for the hours worked during weekends, as they receive  specific amount of payment while travelling, as prescribed in Human Resource List in independent federal entities,  Article (124/4)

The technical allowance shall be granted on the following conditions:

a)   The employee must have a university degree or equivalent or post- secondary diploma or equivalent in his area of specialty

b)   He must be working an engineer, assistant engineer, technician, or as an agricultural or assistant agricultural engineer, or a supervisory job.

c)   He must not be occupying a post of undersecretary or assistant undersecretary.

UAE Nationals performing engineering, technical and agricultural jobs shall be granted a technical allowance according to the following criteria:

Firstly: Occupants of engineering jobs in all specialties including computer engineering, agricultural engineering, as well as jobs that require a university degree or equivalent, in the field of computer, electronics or geology. The allowance granted is 50% of the basic salary and up to AED 5000 maximum

Secondly: Occupants of engineers jobs in IT, agricultural guidance - holders of post- secondary diploma. The allowance granted is 30% of the basic salary and up to AED 2500 maximum

Despite the fact that loan is considered, in accordance with the Training & Development System, a form of training, Article 38 of HR Regulations stipulates that the host entity shall be responsible for the salary and all benefits of an internal trainer on loan from another government entity throughout the loan period. Therefore, the above question does apply to loan, because only seconded employees are entitled to maintain their terms and conditions of employment from their original entities, provided they abide by the provisions set forth in Article 35 of HR Regulations.

Since these courses are provided free of charge, and do not involve additional cost, any entity may introduce such courses as an extra activity.

The term ‘Key’ refers to a course that is directly linked to an employees’ prescribed role, while support activity relates to the nature of work  indirectly

BAYANATI System applies the Federal Law by Decree No (9) for 2011 amending certain provisions of Federal Government Human Resources.

• Core Human Resource System
• Payroll System
• Self-Service System
• Electronic Performance Appraisal System
• Electronic Training and Development System

BAYANATI System is now implemented in 18 ministries and federal entities

In the event of  secondment or transfer and if the situation of  the employee does not change then he/she is obligated to go over and review his/her goals with the direct manager. In the event of a promotion or a change in job responsibilities, if the change occurs prior or within the first three months of the year, then the goals are set for the new job and evaluated by the new direct manager. If the change occurs subsequent to the first three months, then goals are set for both jobs, and evaluated by the old and new direct manager, therefore the goals from the previous job are carried on with the new job, so the employee is evaluated for his previous performance and current by his/her previous and current direct manager.

All the competencies have been clarified in the EPMS, based on that, the evaluation should include all leadership competencies mentioned for the second grade and above. In that case the direct manager should evaluate the employee based on the relevant competencies to the nature of his/her job tasks.

• - If the incidents occurs before the second stage of EPMS (interim review) the direct manager has the power to alter or dismiss this goal considering the givens of the situation.
• - After the second stage (interim review) the goals are not subject to change, hence the direct manager should evaluate the employee based on the procedures he has completed towards achieving the goal.

It is recommended when setting up goals, that the goal first should be a SMART goal, also flexible, and shouldn’t just depend on the end result of completing the goal, but rather include procedures and tasks that should be completed in order to achieve the goal

Employees are appointed according to the law and its implementing regulations, and as per the procedure contained in Human Resources Manual, without discrimination between men and women in accordance with Article (20) of the executive Regulations.

Muslim employees may be granted a 15-working days  leave with full pay to perform Hajj, twice  during his/her tenure maximum,  and with an interval of at least ten years between the two leaves. The employee may combine the annual leave and Hajj leave, which is grated only after successfully passing the probation period. Upon arrival from Hajj, the employee shall provide the necessary evidence for performing Hajj. Weekends and public holidays falling within Hajj leave shall not be considered part it.

Hajj leaves not been taken by the employee shall not be carried over  and therefore not included in the annual leave balance at the employee’s end of service. 

A national female employee on training course is entitled to a return flight ticket to destination  country plus one at the same class to a family member to accompany her during her participation in any course or training program outside the state, whatever the duration of the course

2014

No preparations are needed because the data required for the Award are available on BAYANATI System. In the absence of data on the system, it could  be ordered by an official letter from the competent entity

Yes