ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan and United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to finalize the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the earliest to ensure legal and risk-free migration of Pakistani manpower to the UAE.
The agreement to this effect reached during a meeting between the Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfikar Bukhari and the UAE Minister of Human Resources & Emiratization the other day.
Zulfikar Bukhari informed his counterpart that the safety of Pakistani workforce, which played a key role in development of UAE, is among the top priorities of the incumbent government.
The special assistant thanked the UAE authorities for sharing the draft of MoU and proposed three changes in it. He emphasized an early finalization of the MoU and expressed his desire to ink it during his next visit in February 2019.
The proposed changes in three Articles 3, 5 and 6 of the MoU will be beneficial for the Pakistani expats in transferring money and getting their disputes resolved.
Article 3 pertains to the employment contract, Article 5 will now be concerned with the legal transfer of remittance to the destination of choice of the worker and Article 6 will deal with the dispute resolution between the worker and his employer where quick settlement of disputes will be sought with the help of judicial authorities of UAE, if approved.
To this, the UAE minister assured the special assistant that the MoU would be signed soon after fulfilling codal formalities.
Zulfikar Bukhari said that Pakistan has developed a digital mechanism at its protectorate offices which could be connected with UAE to ensure safe and legal migration of its outgoing manpower. He also asked the UAE minister to unveil UAE’s future human resource demand so that his country could meet their requirement by generating required skilled manpower.
The UAE minister said that they have prepared such plan till 2071 and are ready to share it which is available in documented form.
