Ministerial Resolution No. (44) of 2022 regarding Occupational Health and Safety and Labour Accommodation

Likely relevant where workers perform outdoor work under the sun in open places during the summer window. Free-zone employment arrangements can differ and need a separate check. Office-only work with no outdoor component has no outdoor-ban trigger in the text reviewed.

Entity types

• Employers of workers who work under the sun in open places

Conditions

• Work is performed directly under the sun and in open places.
• The calendar window is 15 June to 15 September every year, from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm.
• Technical exemptions are those in the procedures manual, not assumptions.
• Application inside a particular free zone should be confirmed if workers are not under the MOHRE regime.

• Article 3: no work directly under the sun and in open places from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm between 15 June and 15 September each year.
• Work is not to resume before 3:00 pm, subject to the procedures manual.
• The procedures manual specifies exempted processes that must continue for technical reasons, and the employer obligations in those cases.
• The Ministry’s public guidance repeats the same dates and hours and describes employer obligations during the break.
• The consolidated download states that the article was amended by Ministerial Resolution No. 516 of 2024. The standalone 2024 resolution was not separately reviewed.

• 15 June 2026Start of the 2026 midday-break window (12:30 pm–3:00 pm, outdoor work) (confirmed, compliance). Annual rule. The 2026 window had started before this record was reviewed.
• 15 September 2026End of the 2026 midday-break window (confirmed, compliance)
• 15 June 2027Start of the next midday-break window under the annual rule (confirmed, compliance). Next occurrence of the recurring 15 June date. Not a newly issued one-off deadline.

Other dated events

• 3 February 2022Issue date printed on the Ministry consolidated text (effective, confirmed)

No separate reporting period was identified beyond the duties described above.

• Construction, agriculture, field operations and outdoor logistics need a summer work plan.
• The duty recurs annually. It is not a one-off 2022 deadline.
• Indoor office work is not the activity described in Article 3.

1. Identify roles that work outdoors between 15 June and 15 September.
2. Schedule the 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm break and keep the procedures-manual position for any claimed exemption.
3. Use the Ministry’s midday-break guidance as the public explanation and the resolution as the legal text.

• Article 3

• Ministry consolidated text states that Article 3 was amended by Ministerial Resolution No. 516 of 2024. The standalone amending resolution was not separately reviewed. Source

No related record is linked yet.

• MOHRE — Ministerial Resolution No. 44 of 2022 and its amendments (consolidated text)primary · Article 3 Noon Work Ban; amendment note for Resolution No. 516 of 2024
• MOHRE — Midday Break guidanceprimary · Dates 15 June–15 September; hours 12:30 pm–3:00 pm

• 13 October 2026 — Initial navigator record. Annual window taken from Article 3 and the Ministry guidance page. Resolution 516 of 2024 noted only as an amendment flag.