The most important legal news in local newspapers
We in Ben Arafa Law Group Consulting & Legal Legitimacy L.L.C likes to provide you of the most important legal news in the local newspapers for this week, which related to your business and commercial, labor and procedural activities, and accordingly we provide you with the most important news as follows:
Removing Information of Expatriates from the Records:
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development explained the methods where establishment can remove the information of expatriates from their records in a case of labor stops working, as the employer shall apply for terminating the labor relationship because of the expatriate employee stopping of work upon the completion of the regulating actions including notifying the employee in writing through the approved notification for stopping work in the contract, and the passing of the defined term for firing because of absence, then the employer applies for removing the information of the employee, and the state of expatriate is updated in the system to be “absent from work”, and so the expatriate employee information becomes unrecorded in the establishment, then the employee shall transfer his service to another employer or finally exits, that is in 60 days.
Conditions of the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing for Administrative Offices inside Commercial Building
Ministry of Municipalities and Housing issued its conditions for offices inside commercial buildings with the aim of developing and improving the business environment to achieve individual and community ambitions and objectives. Those conditions aim at supporting investors in that field, and raising the level of conformity to face appearance deformity. The conditions for the offices are as follows:
Procedures of Licensing:
Procedures of issuing, terminating, renewing, amending, and halting licenses shall be according to the municipality licensing procedures system and its executive regulations. Also, the civil defense approval should be attained before issuing the license.
Legal Requirements:
Presenting a valid commercial register that including the activities which are intended to be licensed.
Having an approval from the Public Authority for Small and Medium Size Establishments, related to the business Incubators.
Licensing the closed offices in business incubators, according to the established regulations.
Having the landlord approval
Building Code Requirements:
Property constructional requirements achievement
Property electric requirements achievement
Property mechanical requirements achievement
Executive Regulations for Railway System
Transportation Public Authority Board of Directors approves the executive regulations for the railway system, that consists of (91) regulating articles that aim at regulating all activities and services related to the railway transportation sector, license, procedures and refining the violations and their sanctions, which are as follows:
Activities and services include the following:
Internal transportation in and between cities
Defining the rights and the undertakings of the train users, including the rights of disabled or limited mobility people, according to safety and security standards and conditions.
Licenses and activities that require licensing:
The regulations define a clear mechanism for protecting railway lines and their scope. Also they define the activities that require having a license from the authority. Those activities include:
Infra-structure management
Managing and operating the locations of handling the containers related to the network.
Operating the passengers or goods transport services.
Operating train stations
Safety Management System:
The regulations include obliging the operator to develop a safety management system and verifying its effectiveness, through:
Developing health and safety policy
Developing emergency and works continuation plan in coordination with the concerned authorities.
Developing procedures for ensuring the availability of all required safety requirements in buildings, stores and trains.
Schedule of violations and sanctions:
The regulations include (25) violations which are defined in the schedule of violations and sanctions, including:
Intruding the boundaries of the railway lines: the financial fine opposite that violation is from 10,000 Saudi riyals to 200,000 Saudi riyals, according to the violation category and its effect on the service or its users
