ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 5 Business | 17 Sport | 28 The Gulf Organisation ExxonMobil awarded Flavia Pennetta beat two- for Research and a global licence for a time Grand Slam winner Development yesterday remote gas detection Svetlana Kuznetsova on launched its first six star system to Providence the opening day of Qatar ecoVilla in Lusail City. Photonic. Total Open yesterday. TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2015 • 5 Jumada I 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6351 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 PM meets Afghan security official Emir arrives in Sponsorship Washington WASHINGTON: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani arrived changes soon, last evening in Washington on an official visit to the United States of America. An official delegation accompanies the Emir say lawyers during the visit. QNA New job contract format likely DOHA: Now that the new “Most likely its publication labour law is out, the much- would be timed with that of the Temperature to awaited new sponsorship new sponsorship law so the two and exit permit rules can be can be implemented together,” Al rise from today expected soon, say lawyers. Zaman said. “Simultaneous imple- The two laws are closely inter- mentation is quite likely because DOHA: The cold spell that the linked so it was necessary to the two laws are so closely inter- country has been experienc- amend the labour legislation first linked,” he added. ing over the past three days is — to make way for the new spon- The official gazette is published Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met yesterday with expected to start receding by sorship law to be issued, according by the Ministry of Justice and all Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar and his delegation. They reviewed bilateral this evening, an expert at the to lawyers. Emiri decrees, new laws, cabinet relations. Meteorology Department said The amended labour law makes and ministerial decisions are pub- yesterday. “Temperature would it mandatory for the companies lished in it. start rising from tomorrow covered under it to electronically “It is actually up to the Justice (Tuesday) evening and return transfer the salary of their work- Ministry to decide in which issue to normal by Wednesday ,” he ers. A new format of job contract of the official gazette they would told this daily last evening. is expected to be issued by the publish the new labour law,” Hospital for communicable He said there were no indica- authorities concerned to accom- another lawyer said requesting tions so far of another cold spell modate the above changes. anonymity. this month. “February witnesses The format is expected to pro- He indirectly suggested that the transition from winter to vide guidelines for clauses to be it is not mandatory for the new diseases to open this year summer and the cold weather included in the job contracts on law to be published in the official would come to its end by the end conditions for sponsorship change gazette of this month, confirming DOHA: The specialised hospi- 619 cases recorded in 2009. 115,000 visitors in 2013 and of this month,” he added. and entitlement to exit permit Al Zaman’s view that its publica- tal for communicable diseases at The number of latent (inac- 136,000 visitors in 2012. THE PENINSULA waiver or otherwise. For this, all tion could wait. the Hamad bin Khalifa Medical tive) TB cases has reached 257, This numbers appear very high companies might be required to Yet another lawyer said con- City will open by the end of this which were transferred to the given the fact the TB clinics oper- change the job contracts of all their firming that although the only year, an expert at the Hamad departments concerned for pre- ate from four rooms, with 38 clin- INSIDE workers and follow the new format. thing new in the amended labour Medical Corporation (HMC) ventive treatment not to become ics weekly, said Saoub. It is, thus, likely that the new law is that all companies must has said. active. There is less risk associ- Treatment for TB would take six 9 labour law issued last week may now transfer their workers’ wages The 65-bed hospital will give ated with inactive TV since it is months to a year depending on the Page be implemented together with the electronically, to facilitate that, special attention to tuberculosis not communicable. nature infection.Communicable new sponsorship law, “which is any- existing job contracts of all work- (TB) cases which is still prevalent New TB cases have been diseases are on the rise globally Syria regime’s way expected soon”, said Yusuf Al ers would need to be changed to in the country in significant num- detected during the mandatory with emergence of new viruses like crackdown Zaman. follow a new format. bers, Dr Hussam Saoub, consult- health check ups at the Medical H1N1, MERS and Ebola. Al Zaman, a prominent law- “These clauses will be a necessary ant in communicable diseases at Commission or during examina- No Ebola cases have been pre-planned yer, recalled in remarks to this part of all employment agreements HMC told Al Sharq. “HMC will tions at different healthcare facil- detected in Qatar until now By Dr Faisal Al newspaper that the new labour considering that the new sponsor- receive the hospital in June and ities including HMC hospitals. and MERS remains under con- Kassim law (No 1 of 2015) is to be pub- ship law will most likely leave it to a it will start providing services by Pre-departure medical checks trol with only 13 cases so far. lished in the official gazette and worker to agree in writing with his the end of this year,” said Saoub. for newly recruited foreign work- More than 10,000 employees of Economic freedom then implemented. “Although the employer on conditions for spon- He said, 465 new active TB ers in their country of origin have the HMC have been vaccinated in the Gulf official gazette is out every month, sorship change and exit permit cases were detected in Qatar in helped reduce the cases, said against seasonal influenza since By Dr Jassim there is no information if the new requirements,” said the lawyer. 2014 against 469 cases in 2013. Saoub. they are among the most vulner- Hussain labour law will be published in its Continued on page 3 The prevalence however shows a In 2014 the TB clinics at HMC able segments. next issue,” he said. THE PENINSULA gradual decline compared to the received 118,500 visitors against THE PENINSULA 220 tonnes of sand removed Charlie Hebdo Egypt jails 2011 revolt provokes again with new issue activist for five years PARIS: More than a month CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced Alaa Abdel after gunmen massacred much Fattah, a leading dissident in the 2011 uprising that toppled strong- of the Charlie Hebdo editorial man Hosni Mubarak, to five years in prison over an illegal protest. staff, the magazine is back at The remaining 24 defendants in the case received sentences ranging work with another savage swipe from three to 15 years. at its favourite enemies. The defendants in the caged dock mockingly applauded when the The cover of the latest issue judge pronounced the verdict, as relatives and supporters in the court- due out tomorrow depicts the room chanted: “Down with military rule”. Pope, a jihadist, former president Once described by the authorities as an “icon of the revolution” of Nicolas Sarkozy and far-right pol- 2011, Abdel Fattah had initially been sentenced to 15 years in jail but a itician Marine Le Pen as a pack court ordered a retrial. The 32-year-old was among dissidents arrested of enraged animals chasing after a after a November 2013 protest outside parliament in defiance of a law dog with a copy of Charlie Hebdo that banned all demonstrations except those authorised by police. clamped in its jaws. “We’re back!” Three defendants were sentenced to 15 years because they were not reads the headline. present in the court. Another received five years and the rest three. The team has lain low since All were fined 100,000 pounds (about $13,000). The dissidents had rushing out a “survivors’ issue” a been accused of assaulting police, but it was unclear if the charge was week after the jihadist attack that included in yesterday’s ruling. killed 12 people, including five of “It’s the last act in the circus,” Abdel Fattah’s sister Mona Seif France’s best-loved cartoonists, The public hygiene department at the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning removed 220 tonnes of sand wrote on Twitter. Another sister, Sanaa, was also jailed for protesting on January 7. AFP from the Ras Laffan highway, accumulated after the strong dust winds that hit the country over the past three in a separate trial. The case was among the most prominent in a See also page 10 days. The heaps of sand led to complete closure of the highway, the ministry said yesterday. 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