Sultanate of Oman is a country in the neighborhood of Saudi Arabia and UAE its the most oil rich country like Saudi Arabia it is progressing day by day and has now becoming the most developed countries of the world.
Oman NOC Rules 2024
Due to the development and civilization most of expats wants to move to the Sultanate of Oman to make their lives easier because their are many job opportunities for the expats to find jobs their due to increasing number of industries, construction of buildings, Transportation of construction materials from one place to another due to these reasons their are plenty of jobs provided to foreigners.
As all of us know that you can not do job directly in GCC countries without a sponsor before traveling to Oman you have to concern an Omani local to take the responsibility of sponsoring your job then you can safely do job in Oman.
Changing employer:
After some times of your arrival to Oman if you want to change your employer because that you are not satisfied with that employer than their are some rules to change your employer.
Earlier in Oman if you want to change your sponsor because of any reason than you were required to take the NOC from your previous employer.
Now if you are confused than we are here to clear your confusion that what is NOC and why it is required:
The term NOC means no objection certificate which means that if you are moving from one employer to another than you should issue a no objection certificate from your previous employer that will ensure that their was no problem working with you than you will show this NOC to your new employer only after that the new employer will provide you sponsorship.
But now you don’t have to take tension because the Royal Oman police had now lifted the requirement of NOC for the ease of the expats because it took so much time to issue the NOC and in this time period the expat days were wasted.To change your employer you were needed to wait for 2 years that was termed as cooling period after two years you were supposed to work with new employer.
To avoid all these difficulties new changes were made to Article no 24 by Lt Gen Hasan bin Mohsin al Sharaiqi,Inspector general of Police and customs.
Now an employee can easily think to change his job and sponsor without any difficulty that he or she has completed his job contract or not with the existing sponsor.
Now a days changing jobs has become easier by removing the requirements of NOC in order to change your employer and also their is no need to prove that one has completed his job contract with their previous sponsor.
This new rule is imposed from Jan 2021.This new rule is really appreciated by the business community and the workers who wants to switch jobs.
Omar Ashraf who is a leading businessman of Oman having a huge work force on his payroll has stated that he has observed that this rule can help to retain the talent and skill and progress in the business.
This can also help in changing the staff according to their skills for example if a candidate has the ability of working in a software engineering and he is working as an accountant than he can change his sponsor and job.
Moreover industries has the option to keep a specialized and loyal staff who can serve more to the firm.
You should keep in mind that expatriate visa can be changed to another sponsor only who is able to recruit workers by providing the evidence of the exiry date of the contract or terminarion of the employment contract is presented with proof.
There should be an approval of the competent government authority on the second employers with the expatriate as per as the rules.
The new sponsor will be provided with the transfer of resident permit of the family members of the expat.
It is to be kept in mind that until all the transfers of resident visa of individuals and their families are made the responsibility of previous sponsor is not finished he will be responsible for the residence of expatriate.
Anyone who violates these rules then he may be fined. The Omani government and Royal Oman police has also made this announcment that all the news papers and gazzets should publish this news and it must be applied by Jan 2021.
Method to change employment without NOC:
• With the expiry of the expats work permit you should show the new employer that the expat is not having any current employment contract registered with ministry of Labour.
• You should also clarify that your work permit is terminated by the previous employer for any reason other than the disciplinary reason .
• You should also show the issuance of a ruling court that will clarify thr order to transfer the expat employee to the new employer.
This change is proved to be helpful for the expats because they have the freedom of changing their job without any difficulty and troubles.
As a worker in Oman you should know about all these information’s because this is an new update that can really help you in all of your employments if you are not happy with an employer or the job is not according to your expertise.
Oman NOC Rules 2024 So this was a thorough our view if the NOC updates that are imllemted by Omani government so read this article to get full information.