Company ordered to pay SR4m in compensation to employees

The Executive Court in Jeddah has obliged a private foodstuffs company to pay a sum of SR4.04 million in compensations to 54 employees whom it had unfairly dismissed.

The employees, including 14 Saudi people, have filed complaints against the unidentified company in the court.

According to court sources, the Saudis were compensated by SR1.02 million while the expatriate employees were paid more than SR3.02 million.

The decision additionally obliged the organization to give the rejected employees encounter testaments, pay them their finish of administration remittances, repay them for their aggregated leaves, issue last leave visas for the ostracize workers and furnish them with air tickets to head out to their particular home countries.

As per the Justice Ministry, the official courts in the Kingdom, a year ago got upwards of 639 protestations for pay to the tune of SR797 million for the end of work contracts. 

Makkah, with 172 compensation requests for the payment of SR143 million, topped other regions in the number of complaints while the Eastern Province, with 101 complaints, came first in the amount of money sought in compensations, which was SR464 million.

Riyadh had 161 complaints seeking a total amount of SR167 million, Madinah had 40 complaints for SR12 million while there were 40 complaints in Asir requesting compensations worth more than SR5 million.