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employed persons if they i\,cjuost them, and for a contract to
be in Arabic ii’ an employed purrjon in a Bahrain!.
9. Although nothing pro vent o a.» employer from discharging an
employed per non without notice /.'or justi liable cause, such an

serious neglect of duty, inoubordinn tion, or min conduct, the
Law provideo for a peroon who hoc been dismissed without
notice to have the right to apply for an Arbitration Board to
determine whether or not lie hue been die mi need wrongfully and
whother or not he ohall be paid leaving indemnity, It

provideo us v/ell for an employed person to leave hia work
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without notice j.:C he establishes to the satisfaction of an
Arbitration Board that thcoraployer has assaulted him or has
not fulfilled hie obligations to tho employed person, A
right of appeal to the Courts from decisions of Arbitration
Boards ic given.
1C,. The Law cays that employers shall have the right to “hire
or fire51 and to manage their businesses ns they seo fit, but

that they shall not discriminate against anyone either because
lie is or is not a member of a <rado union, To help employer-
employee relations the Ordinance says that nothing in it shall
prevent the formation of joint consultative committees by
employers and the persons they employ.
11. The Law permita the formation of trade unions but
requires them to be registered by the Uoii.m..saioncr of Labour.

With certain exceptions any twenty people may form a trade
union. To begin with, however, a general union or general
unions of workers will not bo permitted nor will tho formation
of federations or confederations of trade unions. These
restrictions arc imposed by tho Hulor on tho ground that he
wishes to ace first of all how muoconsful tho simpler forms

of trado union organisation . will be. The Prior1n caution
/is