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Employment Regulations (Temporary Work Permit) Rules 2025

Status

In force

Issuing Authority

ADGM

Effective date

XX.XX.XXXX

Official Link

https://

The Board of Directors of Abu Dhabi Global Market in implementation of section 70 of the Employment Regulations 2024, hereby makes the following rules:-

1. INTRODUCTION

(1) Citation, commencement and interpretation

(a) These Rules may be cited as the Employment Regulations (Temporary Work Permit) Rules 2025.

(b) These Rules shall come into force on the Date of Publication.

(c) Unless the context suggests otherwise, terms used in these Rules which are defined in the Regulations shall have the meanings given to them in the Regulations.

In these Rules –

(i) “ADGM Entity” means a licensed person, as defined in the Commercial Licensing Regulations 2025, or the Abu Dhabi Global Market as governed Abu Dhabi Law No. 4 of 2013, as amended;

(ii) “Non-Employee” means a person who is performing work or providing services for an ADGM Entity, or through a third party engaged by such ADGM Entity, within the geographical boundaries of the Abu Dhabi Global Market in circumstances where the relationship between the person performing the work or providing the services and the ADGM Entity is not that of an Employer and Employee and therefore no...