MOHRE Offer Letter
خطاب عرض العمل
The MOHRE offer letter is the standard-form job offer a mainland UAE employer must issue and have the candidate sign before a work permit can be processed. Its legal weight is the point: the formal employment contract registered with the ministry must mirror the signed offer's terms — salary, role, contract type, benefits — and the employer cannot lawfully substitute worse terms after the employee arrives or starts. This rule exists to stop contract substitution, a historic abuse where workers recruited abroad signed one deal and were handed another in the UAE. In practice, lawyers ask for the signed offer letter first in any employment dispute, because it fixes the baseline terms; for employees, refusing to sign a contract that differs from the offer is a protected position, and the discrepancy itself is strong evidence before MOHRE and the labour courts.
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خطاب عرض العمل هو النموذج الموحد الذي يجب على صاحب العمل في القطاع الخاص إصداره وتوقيعه من المرشح قبل البدء في إجراءات تصريح العمل لدى وزارة الموارد البشرية والتوطين. وتكمن قيمته القانونية في أن عقد العمل المسجل لدى الوزارة يجب أن يطابق شروط العرض الموقّع من راتب ومسمى ونوع عقد ومزايا، ولا يجوز لصاحب العمل استبدالها بشروط أسوأ بعد وصول الموظف أو مباشرته العمل. وقد وُضعت هذه القاعدة لمنع استبدال العقود، وهي ممارسة كان يقع ضحيتها العمال المستقدمون من الخارج. وفي النزاعات يُطلب خطاب العرض الموقّع أولاً لأنه يحدد الشروط المرجعية، ويُعد اختلاف العقد عنه دليلاً قوياً أمام الوزارة والمحاكم.
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Related legislation
Cabinet Resolution No. (1) of 2022 Concerning the Executive Regulation of Federal Decree-Law No. (33) of 2021 Regulating Labour Relations
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