Managing A Workforce In The GCC: An Overview

On 7th May, Clyde and Co's MENA employment group in collaboration with lawyers from ASAR in Bahrain and Kuwait, as well as from Jihad Al Taie in Oman, held a half day seminar on the intricacies of Managing a Workforce in the GCC. The session provided a strategic overview of the employment and workforce management aspects of operating in each of the six GCC countries and the basic resources needed to face the challenge of adhering to varying labour laws in each of the GCC countries.

The session was chaired by Sara Khoja (who also covered KSA), with Rebecca Ford covering the UAE, Steven Brown covering Bahrain, Alessandra Zingales covering Oman, Antonio Michaelides covering Qatar and, Ahmed Zekaria covering Kuwait. Each of the speakers focused on a particular country in the GCC and on aspects that they regarded as either topical or important from a practical perspective in that jurisdiction based on their own practical experience. There were also a number of common