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The law protects the reporters and the witnesses of crimes from any harms
The public prosecutor asserts that the Saudi laws protect the people who notify about the crimes, the victims and the witnesses from any harms that may result from reporting or contributing in discovering crimes. It points out that the law establishes defined procedures and securities that aim at protecting the rights of those people and protecting them from any physical or moral harm, whether during the investigations or after the sentences issuance, that include:
- Preventing watching the witness or the expert when they are present at the court for giving their statement of witness or expertise, or at the time of entering the court, or departing it, or using audio or video means of communication to hear the witness. When required, it may the techniques for changing the voice or the photo for protecting the ones who are covered by the law. It may use the program management for the enforceability of the required actions.
Names of witnesses may be hidden from the court sentence, while in a case that the court or the public prosecutor consider that announcing the identity of the one who is covered by the protection is necessary for practicing the right of defense and the witness or the expert statement is the sole means of confirmation in the case, it shall permit announcing their real identity in a condition of providing the required protection that includes:
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Security protection.
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Hiding his personal information and each indication to his identity through the protection period.
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Transferring him from his work place – temporarily or permanently- through coordinating with his work place.
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Helping to have another job, when it is required to leave his job.
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Providing legal, psychological and social guidance.
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Providing him with immediate notification means to notify about any threats that threaten him or any related person.
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Changing his phone numbers.
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Changing his residence, temporally or permanently, and providing suitable substitutes including transferring him to another city or location in the KSA according to the state.
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Taking the required actions for his safety movements, including providing security companion.
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Coordinating with the related authorities for stating the information related to the crime which is the protection subject, by using electronic means, while changing his voice or hiding his face.
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Protecting his house.
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Helping him financially in a case that the protection hinders him from earning money.
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Any other protection which the program management considers suitable according to the bylaw.
Raising awareness about the rights and duties of house labor
Musaned website of the ministry of human resources and social development launches a campaign that aims at raising awareness about the bylaw for house labor and employers rights and duties, to ensure mutual understanding of the rights and the liabilities and improving the contracting relationship between both parties.
The website points out that the bylaw ensures the following for the house labor:
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A paid yearly vacation for 30 days.
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A weekly rest not less than a day.
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A monthly salary at the end of each calendar month.
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A daily rest for not less than 10 hours.
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A suitable housing and enough meals.
Also, it asserts that the employer has rights that include:
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Performing the agreed work accurately and honestly by the house labor.
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The house labor undertakes with the instructions and not leaving the work without a justification.
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The house labor undertakes not to refuse working or being absent without a prior notification.
Updating the conditions for the occupational workshops doesn’t include selling or marketing
Ministry of municipality and housing announces new conditions for regulating occupational workshops activity which is limited to maintenance and repairs.
Categorizing includes light workshops, for example maintenance of watches, equipment, leather wares, computers, jewelry and bicycles, and industrial workshops, for example, carpentry, blacksmithing, and aluminum, while the latter is governed by the requirements of safety and constructions.
The updates require undertaking with the Saudi code of construction including constructions, electricity, mechanics, ventilation, sanitary sewerage, and saving energy. The designs and the performance should be approved from licensed engineering offices.
The conditions require providing separated reception areas from the work locations, showing products at only the reception area, while undertaking with not more than 50% percentage for showrooms and offices to the maximum of 30% for offices.
The instructions assert providing toilets and bathrooms for workers and visitors of industrial workshops, especially at light workshops, while undertaking with hygiene and correct disposal of wastes.
The conditions require having a municipality license before operating and renewing it regularly. They prevent practicing any non-licensed activity or outside the workshop or using platforms or storing materials which aren’t related to the activity. Also, they prevent removing or covering closing posters, or re-operating before treating wastes, in addition to have the municipality approval.
For appearance and safety, the conditions require that facades should be void of random posters, while they allow only approved boards and information, no parking signs shouldn’t be installed while regular parking shouldn’t be closed. The regulations include undertaking with occupational safety and health requirements, and applying the fire protection code, including warning, fire-fighting and first aid systems.
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