Employment disputes reach every business that hires. We act for employers and senior employees on contracts, terminations, end-of-service settlements and disputes across the mainland, the DIFC and the ADGM. The work runs from the documents that set up the relationship to the claim that ends it.
Most employment disputes are decided by the paperwork that existed before the dispute. The contract, the warning letters, the resignation, the gratuity calculation. The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation and the labour courts work from the record, and a defensible termination is one that was documented as it happened rather than reconstructed afterwards. Employment lawyers in Dubai earn their fee in the file, not the hearing.
Contracts and policies
We draft employment contracts, handbooks and policies that hold up under the UAE Labour Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021), which moved all mainland employment to fixed-term contracts and tightened the rules on notice, leave and end-of-service. Getting the contract and the wage protection position right at the start removes most of the exposure later.
Termination and disputes
We act on terminations, redundancy, arbitrary dismissal claims, gratuity disputes and MOHRE complaints, and we represent parties before the labour courts. The decisions made in the week a termination is planned decide whether it becomes a clean exit or a claim.
Free zone employment
The DIFC and ADGM run their own employment regimes. The DIFC Employment Law (Law No. 2 of 2019) and the ADGM Employment Regulations apply instead of the federal law inside those centres, with different rules on penalties, gratuity and end-of-service. We advise employers operating across onshore and financial-centre entities on the differences that catch them out.
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