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The United Arab Emirates adopt a two-tiered federal system of government. Legislation is enacted at the federal level and the local Emirate level. There are seven Emirates, of which Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the most well known outside of the jurisdiction. Within Abu Dhabi, as an example, the applicable law would be a combination of federal law, which applies in the main across the United Arab Emirates, together with the laws of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. In practice there are very few local employment laws and these are limited in scope to matters such as compulsory health insurance for employees or health and safety which remain regulated at the Emirate level. The main federal law relating to the regulation of employment issues is the Federal Law no. 8 of 1980 which we call the Labour Law in this chapter.
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Crossley, N. (2016). 19. United Arab Emirates. In: Kirchner, J., Morgenroth, S., Marshall, T. (eds) Transfer of Business and Acquired Employee Rights. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49007-5_19
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