Legal Specialist
Ezdan Holding Group
Total years of experience :25 years, 4 Months
In-house legal Counsel to Group CAO - lead and manage day-to-day compliance activities for the Group CAO, in order to strengthen the organizational capabilities by adopting leading practices and ensure compliance with applicable regulations and guidelines.
Control and Investigation Committee Member:
- Supervises or/and undertakes, investigations of incidents involving the Group’s interests; investigating and preparing reports to identify causes, liabilities, and take preventative action following those cases
- Drafts case materials on employment and human resource related issues.
- Recommends solutions which do not involve confrontation or conflict, usually under considerable time constraints
- In collaboration with the HR Team, developed the Group’s staff on laws, regulations and legal developments that relate to the Foundation's activities.
- Prepare the memos and other documents which may have legal implications
Key Responsibilities:
handles all legal consultancy matters related to the ministry of labor.
Provides legal advice directly to the minister and reviews the ministry's policies.
Represents the ministry in legal disputes.
Reviews and negotiates the ministry's agreements.
Job Details:
1. Council of Ministers:
Preparing new project laws and presenting it to the council in Arabic language.
Amending provisions of the current labor laws and presenting the draft to the council.
Amending the departments’ duties and responsibilities within the ministry's structure in coordination with the concerned departments and presenting the final structure for the council's approval.
2. Minister of Labor:
- Internal Affairs:
Providing legal advice concerning the internal regular issues.
Drafting legal correspondences with outside parties.
- International Affairs:
Preparing legal agreements to be signed with foreign countries.
Reviewing the International Legal Organization (ILO) agreements and providing the legal advice to the minister.
3. Companies operating under the legal law:
Providing Legal advice within the labor law and ministerial resolutions implementation.
4. Other departments within the Ministry of Labor:
- Labor Relations Department:
Member of the labor disputes settlements committee; screening complains and settling the disputes.
- Labor Inspection Department:
Reviewing corporate violations report to the labor law, presented by the inspectors and referral the report to the public prosecution.
5. Internal in-house legal training:
In house legal trainer for new hired inspectors (Judicial officers appointed by the public prosecutor).
6. Cases and Investigations department:
- Following-up on legal disputes to which the ministry is a party - In coordination with state lawsuits department at the Ministry of Justice.
- Responsible for performing administrative investigations with the employees who committed violations, then preparing a memo summarizing the investigations results incorporating the legal view to be presented to the minister.
- Follow-up on the workers disputes statuses, that have been transferred to the court.
- Review corporate inspections violations reports that have been issued by labor inspection department, then transfer the reports to the concerned police station.
- Penalties executions; follow up on the employees working within the Ministry of Labor.
7. Other:
- Developed a legal instructions directory for the labor inspectors.
Judicial inspection department:
Assisting legal consultants in screening complains against prosecutors.
Responsible for all investigations held within the station and referral to the public prosecution.
•Maintain smooth operations and other affairs between the Public prosecution and the station.
•Analyze & calculate potential risk elements and developing contingency plans accordingly.
•Develop & insure all fire prevention / fighting is in place and secured.
•Allocate & manage security personnel for all the premises.