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The Oman Council of Ministers has ordered the setting up of a team including international experts to help revise the Oman labour law.

The team will also include representatives of the ministries of manpower, commerce and industry, oil and gas, tourism, the Oman chamber of commerce and industry and the general federation of Oman trade unions according to Oman minister of manpower, Abdullah bin Nasser al Bakri, in an address to the Majlis A’Shura at the beginning of February. Al Bakri said that his ministry is in the process of floating a tender to international experts but stressed that the terms of reference would not extend to re-writing the law which is already in draft form. The ministry is also working on setting up a regulatory board for private sector institutions to determine rules and criteria on recruitment, salaries, training, promotions and qualifications of private sector employees.