UAE Employment Law – Additional Benefits

Employers in the UAE can offer employees benefits, which are above those set out in the UAE Employment Law. To be clear, the UAE Employment Law lists the “minimum rights” for employees.

As per Article 65(1) of the Law. While employers cannot contract away from those minimum rights,

They can offer additional terms, as long as those terms do “not prejudice” the rights set out in the law, but are rather “more beneficial” to the employees, than those in the law. These additional rights can be provided for in any type of a document, be it an 1) offer letter, 2) declaration, 3) agreement, 4) or even an email.