Oman labour law

COLLEGE OF BANKING AND FINANCIAL STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

B.Sc. in Accounting, Auditing and Finance and

Bachelor’s in Business Administration

GROUP ASSIGNMENT BRIEF

Assessment Component: 30 Marks

Student Name	Student ID
Semester	06	Spring 2020 -21
Assignment Title	Application of Oman Labour Law
Module	UG091 OLL -Oman Labour Law	Assessors:	Dr Abdul Salam & Joyce Noronha
Start Date:	March 21 2021	Internal Verifier	Ms Sona
Due Date:	Formative: : April 10, 2021 Summative: April 18, 2021
Required Work, Format and Grading
You must submit the assignment by the due date
Resources: You should apply provisions of relevant laws while providing advice. You can access the Internet to research about the. You should demonstrate good academic practice by the appropriate use of academic texts and journals that are properly referenced.
Guidelines and further information about assignment:
If the turnitin report generated indicates a similarity index of 20% or more, a review of your assignment is necessary to reduce the same to less than 20%.

The user ID and Password for submitting the soft copy of the assignment through TURNITIN is as follows:

Class ID:	28364104
Enrolment Password:	OLLMB

Submission time and date

Make sure that all the relevant details are complete. Assignments must be submitted by the due date. Assignments not submitted on or before the due date will not be assessed.

Plagiarism Writing

Summary

1. Plagiarism occurs if you use somebody else’s work in an assignment or exam answer but fail to state where you got the material. You need to be also very careful about the amount of words you are using from somebody else’s work.

2. It can happen in any type of assessment where you are given the questions or tasks in advance.

3. If another student uses your work in his/her answer(s), both you and he/she will be punished when caught.

4. Punishments for committing plagiarism can be very severe.

Details

Plagiarism is a form of cheating in which students use the work of others and present it as their own. It may include all or any one of the following

1. Copying extensively from the work of others (from sources such as books, magazines, journal, websites etc.) and submit the work as your own.

2. Copying another students’ work and submit it for assessment under your own name.

3. Allowing students to copy your work and then submit it for assessment under their own name.

What happens if you are caught?

The examining body of CBFS may punish offending students in any manner that they deem fit. Typical punishments may range from reduction in grades, making students re-sit modules and even failing students on a module or an entire award. The college considers this form of cheating as a serious offence. Therefore, be forewarned!

The assignment makes up 30% of the student’s final marks for the module

Word limit: There is no maximum word limit. The word limit for each task/question is provided in the question

Scenario or Tasks

This assignment is based on

Learning Outcome :

LO 2 Examine the provisions of contract of work, wages, leave and working hours.

LO 3 Assess the impact of legal provisions on Employment of Citizens and Foreign workers Employment of Juveniles and Women and resolution of Labour disputes (Partially)

The Assessment Criteria are

2.1 Discuss the legal provisions of contract of work.

2.2 Discuss the legal provisions of employers’ right to dismiss the worker

2.3 Explain the legal provisions of different kinds of leave .

3.1 Explain the legal provisions of employment of Citizens and regulations of Foreigners’ work

3.2 Discuss various legal provisions of employment of Juveniles.

3.3 Discuss various legal provisions of employment of Women

TASK 1:

The task contains 5 scenarios. You must answer each of them separately by referring to the relevant articles of Oman Labour Law. Do not reproduce the articles here. Your answer should be supported by proper reasoning.

Break-up of marks: 1 mark for citing the correct article and three marks for reasoning. Total 4 marks. (5×4=20)

Scenario 1

Marwan joined Mazoon Equipment LLC on January 15, 2016 as a painter. He was dismissed on April 16 , 2017. Prior to his dismissal Marwan had submitted his resignation on March 15, 2017 clearly stating that he was submitting his resignation with immediate effect. Mazoon Equipment did not respond to this resignation. Marwan continued working till April 16, 2017, the date on which he was terminated.

Question 1 : Is the resignation submitted on March 15, 2017 valid?

Question 2 : Analyse the relevant article/s of Labour Law of Oman that deal with this case (word limit for both questions 150 words )

Scenario 2

Haroon is employed with Tasty Bites Restaurant in Muscat. He is known for losing his cool without any reason. On September 2, 2020 when his Supervisor Seif asked him to wear his face mask in the prescribed manner he started abusing Seif. When Seif asked him to calm down he landed a blow on Seif’s face dislodging two of his teeth besides causing a black eye and a fractured nose. Sief was taken to the hospital in a critical condition and had to remain in hospital for over a month. Tasty Bites is contemplating terminating the services of Haroon with immediate effect ( without any notice) and end of service benefits.

Question 1 : Is Tasty Bites in compliance with the Labour Law of Oman? Question 2 : Discuss referring to relevant articles from the Labour Law of Oman. (word limit is 150 words )

Scenario 3

Windtech Wind Energy SAOC requires its Muslim employees to work for 6 hours per day during the month of Ramdan . The total hours worked are 36 hours per week. SunTech Solar Energy SAOC reduces the working hours to 6 hours for all its employees. The total hours worked are 30 hours .

Question: Determine which of the two establishments have violated the Labour Law of Oman? (word limit is 150 words )

Scenario 4

SaveWell Bank has an agreement with Friends Agency under which Friends provides hygiene maintenance staff to SaveWell. The staff is under the control of Friends. SaveWell pays a lump sum contract fee to Friends. Friends then pays the staff deployed at SaveWell. The wage rates are lower than that of SaveWell but higher than the minimum stipulated by the Labour Law of Oman. Fareed, one of the staff sent by Friends Agency, lodges a claim to be paid what employees of SaveWell are paid because according to him the bank is benefitted by his services. Hence Fareed wants to be treated at par with the regular employees of SaveWell

Question : Will Fareed’s Claim succeed ? (word limit is 150 words )

Scenario 5

SuperBowl Soups LLC employs 45 employees. The Company has informed the Directorate of a vacancy which will be created with effect from March 4, 2020. The vacancy is on the shopfloor. Based on the job specification the Ministry nominates Ammaar a person with special needs.

SuperBowl refuses to recruit Ammaar stating that they are not bound to comply with the Directorate’s requirement.

Question : Is the stand taken by SuperBowl valid? (word limit is 150 words )

Task 2

Global Knowledge a reputed business house in Oman has recently established two Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) one in Muscat and the other in Sohar. Both HEIs will open their doors for students in September 2021. To make the HEIs operational, there is a need for different categories of staff ( administrative, Human Resources, IT, Marketing other staff and Teaching Faculty )

Global Knowledge has approached Come to Us Consultants for help. You are a trainee with the consulting group. Your Team Leader requires you to :

5 Marks for both Question 1 and 2

Question 1: Explain in detail the procedure envisaged in the Oman Labour and related Ministerial Directives Global Knowledge requires to comply with to recruit

a. Omanis

b. Non -Omanis.

Question 2 : The client has also asked advice on the law on

a) employment of Juveniles.

b) employment of Women

c) Different types of leave employees are entitled to

( Maximum words for both question 1 and 2 : 1000 )

Disclaimer Clause : The example companies, organizations, products, and people depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, and person is intended or should be inferred.

Task 3 : Presentation ( 5 Marks )

1. You will have to prepare at least 3 slides for each question , excluding the first, second and the last slide which are common for all questions. The slides must be uploaded in the class created for presentation submission. The slides must be in PDF form.

2. The first slide will contain the names and student ids of the group. The group leader’s name must be the first name in the list.

3. The second slide should contain the summary.

4. The last slide the list of references.

You may provide detailed slides or bullet points only. If your slide contains only bullet points, then it must contain speaker notes

Requirements

1. Detailed guidelines on references and bibliographies are available on the Front Sheet. You are strongly encouraged to familiarise yourself with this prior to completing your assignment. Failure to include proper references will result a deduction of marks.

2. NAMING YOUR FILE: The file you upload on turnitin MUST be labelled as below:

The maximum members in a group should be 5. You may form a group with less than 5 members if you wish to.

OLL ST----- put the ID of the group leader who will be uploading the assignment and the member who will be uploading the slides in PDF form only

PLEASE ENSURE THAT ALL YOUR STUDENT NUMBERS ARE LISTED AT THE TOP OF THE ASSIGNMENT. YOUR WORK WILL NOT BE ASSESSED IF NAMES AND STUDENT NUMBERS OF ALL GROUP MEMBERS ARE NOT INCLUDED ON THE COVER SHEET OF YOUR SUBMISSION.

Student declaration:

We agree and certify that we have researched and prepared the work contained in this assignment.

Signature: __________________________ Date: _______________

END OF ASSIGNMENT

Standard Valued Rubrics for Assignment

Level 7

Marks/ Grades Criterion	90-100 A	85-89 A-	74-84 B	56-73 C	55-55 D	0-49 F
Knowledge 30%	Shows well-coordinated understanding of subject	Sound understanding of subject matter	Major facts are understood	Shows understanding of basic issues/theory	Minimal understanding of basic issues/topic	No understanding of the topic/subject area
Analysis 40%	Touches upon all relevant issues/theory. Concise analysis	Detailed coverage of basic concepts/theory. Reasonable coverage of subtle issues/theory	Reasoned argument and sequencing	Shows evidence of understanding of concepts. Coverage of obvious ideas.	Fails to identify subtle issues/theory. Captures obvious ideas.	No or minimal understanding of the key theories/topic
Research 10%	Excellent referencing and reading in all areas	Use of up-to-date resources. Well informed and generally accurate information provided.	Appropriate referencing	Adequate referencing and reading.	Weak reading and referencing	Poor referencing. Shows lack of reading/references out of date
Relevance 10%	All material used is of relevance	Material used is relevant	Discussion shows relationship to theory	Some material repetitive	Some repetitive matter. Irrelevant	No relevance to subject matter
Conclusion 10%	Excellent conclusion. Brings together all concepts and adds an original perspective	Intelligent conclusion. Good application of knowledge	Methods incorporate modifications used	Conclusion in place but key points missing. Reasonable application of knowledge	Weak conclusion and content. Satisfactory application of ideas/theory	Poor conclusion. Poor knowledge application.

Standard Valued Rubrics for Presentation

Levels 5, 6, 7 and 8

Marks/Grades Criterion	90-100 A	85-89 A-	74-84 B	56-73 C	55-55 D	0-49 F
Delivery 25%	Shows well-coordinated delivery with confidence	Sound coordinated delivery with confidence	Some evidence of coordinated delivery with confidence	Basic coordinated delivery with average confidence	Minimal coordinated delivery with limited confidence	No evidence of coordinated delivery with low confidence
Methods 25%	Creative quality of PPT slides	Sound quality of PPT slides	Some evidence of quality of PPT slides	Shows basic quality of PPT slides	Minimal evidence of quality of PPT slides	No evidence of quality of PPT slides
Structure 25%	Shows well-coordinated logical structure & flow	Sound logical structure & flow	Evidence of logical structure & flow	Shows basic logical structure & flow	Minimal logical structure & flow	No evidence of logical structure & flow
Content 25%	Shows well-coordinated evidence of coherent, insightful & explicitly relevant answer to the question	Sound evidence of coherent, insightful & explicitly relevant answer to the question	Some evidence of coherent, insightful & explicitly relevant answer to the question	Shows basic coherent, insightful & explicitly relevant answer to the question	Minimal evidence of coherent, insightful & explicitly relevant answer to the question	No evidence of coherent, insightful & explicitly relevant answer to the question

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