Bahrain Parliament upholds end-of-service benefits for foreign workers

TDT | Manama  

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

The Bahrain Parliament rejected yesterday an urgent proposal to postpone the collection of end-of-service benefits for foreign workers and apply it immediately to various institutions, especially small and medium-sized enterprises in the private sector, until the end of the current year.

The proposal was submitted by MPs Ahmed Al Saloom, Ahmed Qaratah, Mohammed Al Ma’arifi, Khaled Bu Anq, and Jalal Kadhem. Abdullah Mohammed Turki Al Mahmoud, CEO of Subscriber Services at the GOSI, confirmed last year that the Cabinet approved the regulation of registration and calculation procedures for end-of-service benefits for non-Bahrainis in the private sector.

This comes under Article 10 of Law No. 14 of 2022, where non-Bahraini workers are subject to the end-of-service benefits system. The approval will specify the subscription rates, conditions, and procedures for calculating end-of-service benefits, taking into account the provisions of the Labour Law in the private sector, as stipulated in Law No. 36 of 2012.

It is part of the provisions of the end-of-service benefits law in the private sector, where the employer bears a monthly contribution, calculated based on the basic salary and social allowance (if applicable).