Dubai: The Dubai Police, in coordination with the Ministry of Human Resources & Emiratisation (MOHRE), Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and private companies, have recently launched an awareness programme to raise workers' awareness on their rights and duties.

Organised by the General Department of Human Rights in Dubai Police, in cooperation with Dubai Police community-based initiative the 'Positive Spirit', the programme's first phase targeted more than 150 warehouse workers of UAE's online marketplace 'Noon' and educated them about their legal rights and duties. 

According to Captain Hamad Al Shamsi, Head of the Temporary Workers Welfare Section at the General Department of Human Rights, the awareness programme aims at educating workers on all categories of their rights guaranteed by law and their contractual obligations. He further explained that the programme supports the strategic objective of the Dubai Police toward enhancing the community's safety and happiness.

Al Shamsi added, "through the three-month awareness programme, we will also promote labours' communication channels with the Dubai Police, including the (901) Call Centre, which enable them to submit their inquiries, feedback and complaints, as well as provide them with consultations on legal rights, contractual obligations, the wages protection and labours complaints apps." 

Fatima Buhajeer, a coordinator of the 'Positive Spirit' Initiative, explained that the first phase of the awareness programme, which was launched at the "Noon" warehouses in the presence of more than 150 workers, reinforces the objectives of the Positive Spirit Initiative in consolidating the spirit of social harmony and the values of tolerance, in addition to promoting the Initiative programmes that engage workers in purposeful sports and community events.