Uniform code for women’s work environment launched

The Ministry of Labor and Social Development has launched a new initiative, seeks to empower women and increase their cooperation in the labor market and in the private sector.

The Ministry propelled the Unified Regulation of Women's Work Environment Initiative to make an attractive workplace for ladies and to encourage private sector enterprises to to attract and empower women to work.

The Ministry would like to open a few fields for ladies to work while in the meantime giving an attractive and safe workplace for them.

The organization addressed several measures for ladies' work, the most vital of which is the employer’s duty to making a suitable workplace for ladies, abstaining from doing any work to pressure freedom of women in a way that does not conform to labor and local regulations.

It additionally focused on non- discrimination in wages for employees, both female and male, doing same work in view of their gender, giving a suitable place to female workers to perform prayers, rest and provide them with private toilets.

It also called for providing women with suitable areas and distances to practice their work or separate counters, guaranteeing security and independence in the women’s' segments of office working conditions not doled out to get clients, not utilizing ladies in cleaning offices or rooms and conveying packs in connection to the traveler convenience area, except those for women only.

The activity asked the giving of enough security watch or reasonable electronic security framework in offices relegated to ladies, while the quantity of working ladies in a single move ought not be under two on account of essence of male specialists, notwithstanding the non-work of ladies in foundations selective for men.

The Ministry additionally disallowed the work of ladies in mechanical occupations and works that open them to dangers and harms for ensuring their wellbeing. It indicated the working hours for ladies around evening time for different exercises until 11 p.m. with the exception of mechanical exercises until 6 p.m., just as a few exercises and different circumstances where ladies can work at any hour of the night, for example, in doctor's facilities and crisis circumstances, work in Ramadan and seasons and the focal territories in Makkah and Madinah for the foundations.