10 days annually paid leave for a worker who is affiliated or regular in study

 The UAE digital government has confirmed that a worker in the private sector, who is affiliated or regularly studying in one of the educational institutions approved in the country, may be granted a paid study leave for 10 working days per year, to perform the tests, provided that the period of service with the employer is not less than two years.

She stated that there are nine leaves that may be granted to the worker: annual leave, sabbatical leave to perform national service, study leave, mourning leave,   Umrah leave, maternity leave for female employees in the private sector, parental leave, sick leave in the labor law - the private sector, as well as For scheduled holidays and vacations.

And in 2020, a federal decree was issued to amend some provisions of the law regulating labor relations, through which workers in the private sector are granted paid leave to care for their children, and thus the UAE will be the first Arab country to grant parental leave to workers in the private sector.

The law grants the Muslim employee the right to obtain leave to perform the obligatory Hajj Hajj leave is granted without pay for only 30 days and is granted once throughout the employee’s period of work with the employer. The UAE Labor Law did not include any provisions regarding the employee’s obtaining an Umrah leave, and if the employee requests this, the employer is free to approve or not, deduct it from the employee’s annual leave, or consider it unpaid leave.