Labour legislation in the Persian Gulf: Employers Liability Ordinance

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Compilation of labour legislation in force in the Middle East by the International Labour Office. It includes a translation of the Kuwaiti legal decision regarding 'blood money' (1)
• View of Mr Godfrey of the Kuwait Oil Company Limited (KOC) of the 'Workman's Compensation Regulation', and a comparison of rates of compensation for injury in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India (2)
• Payment of long service gratuities to the local staff of Shell and the Qatar Petroleum Company Limited (QPC) in Qatar and details of the 'thrift plan' operated by the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (Bapco) (3)
• Draft ordinance regarding the payment of compensation by employers to injured employees and comments by various departments. It includes the 'Workmen's Compensation Ordinance, 1949' for Uganda (4-9)
• Agreement made between the late Ruler of Kuwait and KOC regarding a scale of compensation payments based on Sharia Law, and the possibility of forming a workmen's compensation committee (10)