Laborers' Welfare Department

The Prerogatives:

• Implementing the ministry’s plans , policies and programs in laborers` welfare and awareness filed.
• Developing social services offered to laborers by the private sector establishments and expanding their scope and monitoring the private sector’s application of the provisions of the Omani labor law and the pertinent regulations and decisions and systems relating to laborers services.
• Preparing programmes of the endorsed laborers` awareness plan to acquaint laborers and employers with the provisions of the labor law and the executive regulations and decisions pertaining to laborers welfare and holding courses and workshops.
• Preparing and issuing awareness bulletins and pamphlets to distribute them to employers and laborers in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Preparing and holding audio-visual media programmes relating to the national labor force welfare, in coordination with the concerned authorities.
• Cooperating with other labor departments in detecting negative phenomena among laborers , finding the causes and reaching appropriate solutions to such negative phenomena, within the framework of the Omani labor law.
• Participating in the preparation of periodical reports about the ministry’s achievements and programmes.

Goals of laborers' welfare department:

• Ensuring good and stable work relations between laborers and employers.
• Enhancing production and the growth of the national economy.
• Raising awareness with laborers services offered by the private sector to Omani workers.
• Imparting legal knowledge and awareness among employers and laborers.
• Listening to the complaints of laborers and employers and attempting to settles disputes which arise between them.
• Ensuring that employees of the private sector comply with the regulations of the articles of associations of the companies in which they work , through guidance and continued awareness campaigns.

Laborers' welfare services:

Social services offered to laborers:

• Endeavoring to develop the social services offered to laborers by companies and establishments.
• Monitoring the application of the provisions of the Omani labor law and the regulations relating to the services provided to laborers such as medical care, nutrition and housing and attempting to establish new laborers` services in coordination with the concerned public and private establishments.
• Holding sports and cultural contests among laborers.
• Studying the psychological and social phenomena resulting from work.
• Participating in studying some negative phenomena among laborers and reviewing their causes and proposing appropriate means to overcome them.

Laborers' awareness activities:

• Preparing plans to raise awareness among employers and laborers with the provisions of the Omani labor law.
• Holding seminars and workshop to highlight the labor and laborers topics and educate employers and laborers.
• Preparing TV and radio programmes on the labor and laborers affairs.
• Highlighting the activities conducted by the ministry, through the holding of exhibitions and conferences and the publishing of awareness bulletins.