Omanis face court over expat ’free visa’ labour law breaches

Two Omanis who broke Labor Law norms by permitting more than 1300 expat specialists to work for different organizations have been alluded to the nation's Public Prosecutors, the Ministry of Manpower has uncovered. 

Service examinations found that the two residents exchanged 88 industrially enrolled organizations with 1302 expat representatives - however hadn't procured a solitary Omani. 

"The Directorate General for Labor Care has moved the instance of two Omanis, who exchanged 88 business registers with 1302 expats and no Omani representatives, to the Public Prosecution," the Ministry revealed in an announcement. 

A representative at the Ministry included: "Field examination has demonstrated that the two Omanis have enabled their expat representatives to leave the organization and go work for other people, which is an offense for illicit business. 

"Another wrongdoing is to leave the expats with no work to profit by, which can prompt the specialists getting to be focuses for human dealing or being exploited. 

"After it was demonstrated that the two Omanis have submitted these demonstrations and infringed upon work law and clerical choices for the law, the service has quit working with the organizations of the two Omanis and moved their records to the Public Prosecution." 

The source included that the activities of the two Omanis disregard article 18 of the Labor Law, which states, "Businesses are restricted from enabling expat specialists to work for another person, utilizing expat laborers who have been allowed to work for another person or are illicitly in the Sultanate, or utilizing any non-Omani in a totally Omanised calling.