1. The Labour Law draws the legal frame of the compensation for work injuries & professional diseases. It defines such injuries & diseases in two schedules attached to the Law. The employer, in case of work injuries & professional diseases undertakes to pay the expenses for the treatment of the worker at public, community, & local clinics, until he/she is healed, or his/her disability is proved. The treatment includes the hospitalization, the surgeries, the X-rays, the medical tests, the drugs, the donation of organs, the artificial devices, & the compensation for the worker who proves to be disabled, as well as the travelling expenses required for the treatment.
2. If the work injury prevented the worker from resuming his/her job, the employer should provide him with a financial aid, equal to his/her full salary throughout the period of treatment or for a period of six months, whichever is shorter. If the treatment lasted for more than six months, the aid will be reduced to the half, for another six months or until the worker heals, or until he/she is proved disabled or he/she dies whichever is less.
3. If the work injury or professional disease has led to the demise of the worker, the members of his/her family are entitled to a compensation equal to his/her basic salary for 24 months. The compensation value should vary between AED. 18,000 minimum & AED. 35,000 maximum, the compensation value shall be calculated according to the last salary drawn by the worker before he/she died. It will be distributed to his/her family members who are entitled thereto, namely:
   
• The widow or widows.
  
• The sons: The sons who are below 17 years of age & those who are regularly attending schools & have not completed 24 years of age, or those who mentally or physically are incapable to earn their living.
  
• Unwed daughters 
  
• The parents
  
• Brothers & Sisters
4. The law has determined the cases when the employer is not obliged to pay compensation to the worker for work injuries. Article 153 states that the injured employee shall not be entitled to indemnity for the injury or disability if it has not caused death if the investigations by the competent authorities prove that the worker has deliberately caused injury to himself with the intention to commit suicide or to obtain a compensation or sick leave or otherwise, or if he/she was, at the time of accident, under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or if he/she had violated the safety instructions displayed conspicuously at the work premises, on purpose, or if his/her injury or disability resulted from voluntary flagrant misdemeanor, or if he/she had refused, for no serious reason, to undergo a medical checkup or treatment as prescribed by the medical board. In these cases, the employer shall not be under obligation to provide treatment or any financial subsidy to the worker.

Creation date : 27/05/2007 @ 14:51
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