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Article: Workers protest overtime payment.
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- Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Byline: Sunita Menon, Staff Reporter
Dubai: Hundreds of workers from Al Habtoor Engineering took to the streets yesterday demanding overtime options and unpaid overtime salaries.
Workers of Al Habtoor Engineering protested in Jebel Ali and Al Ghurair City in Deira and agreed to go back to their jobs when assurances were made by the police that their grievances would be addressed.
The workers reported for work as usual at 6am and went about their jobs until 8am after which they gathered themselves and voiced out their grievances.
In less than half-an-hour police and the members of the permanent labour committee arrived on the scene to ...