WORK CONTRACTS UNDER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Mohamed El-Dessouky, PhD Dean, Civil law associate professor /College of law, Al falah university, Dubai, UAE

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There is no doubt that the Covid 19 pandemic, and the governments measures that were aimed at preventing the spread of the disease, had a significant impact on many areas, including tourism and aviation, hotels, restaurants and factories, which had an impact on the work contracts in effect when this pandemic occurred, researcher will explain in this paper the extent to which the general rules apply in contracts, as well as specific rules related to organizing labor relations to others. The conditions of force majeure theory may result in the impossibility of implementing labor contracts, whether the impossibility is permanent or temporary, in whole or in part.
On the other hand, Theory of emergency conditions may also can be applied to in circumstances that allow the rebalancing of the obligations and rights of employers and workers, hence the state’s role in compensating employers for their losses represented in the payment of workers ’salaries – as happened in some countries such as France – and search paper addresses the possibility of considering Covid 19 infection as work injury, and If an infection occurs in transportation when going to work, could it be considered a road accident?
Also, Researcher will clarify the extent of the need to amend the current rules governing labor relations to suit these pandemic, as well as the rules of social insurance so that the scope of insurance extends to cover the effects of such pandemic and is not limited to traditional risks such as disability, aging and reaching retirement age.