GFOW says 393 labour complaints received in 2023

GFOW says 393 labour complaints received in 2023

Muscat: Termination of employment contracts and non-payment of salaries were among the most common complaints received by the General Federation of Oman Workers (GFOW) in 2023.

Last year, requests for legal consultations and labour complaints reached 393. These complaints were submitted by trade unions, sectoral general unions, and a group of workers in the private sector due to the employment contract disputes between the employees and employers.

In 20 cases, legal support was provided to the members of trade unions and workers instantly before going into the exceptional levels of litigation.

With a success rate of 90 percent, judgments were delivered in 11 cases by keeping into account the interests of workers.

As many as 3,997 workers were notified about the termination of their contracts or laid off en masse from 51 establishments.

As per the Ministerial Resolution (492/2025) for the year 2023, the results of the meetings of the committee to consider requests submitted by the private sector establishments for reducing the workforce led to following results:

A total of 259 workers were included in the requests for termination of their services from 14 companies.

The committee took appropriate decisions after studying the cases submitted by the companies and most of the applications did not meet