Ministry sees mid-day break rule compliance
Inspectors from the Ministry of Manpower (MoM) are checking work sites on a daily basis to ensure full compliance with the midday break rule for labourers, a senior official at the ministry said.>
Officers at the Royal Oman Police processing centre in Seeb were happy to take an employer or sponsor’s address to link it to the resident card, and the spokesman for the force has confirmed that is still the case – for the time being.
A tender document was released yesterday by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) for a Unified Addressing System Database in an effort to co-ordinate Oman’s homes under a single addressing system.
At least until that is up and running, residents and newcomers will be able to use a company address or a post box, a police spokesman said.
Civil register data
The notification issued by the ROP on Sunday stated: “For the purpose of completing your civil register data, when issuing or renewing your ID or residence card, you need to register your present and permanent address specifying the street name, way no, lane no, block no, building, house no, PO box, postal code, residential phone, mobile no.” Abdulmalik Al Balushi, Chief Executive Officer, Oman Post said, “I think post boxes should be made mandatory.
“I think ROP are trying to update their data, to know who lives where, and I think it’s very important. In my view making post boxes an optional field and to suggest that people can use their sponsor’s postal address will not serve the purpose.
“In some countries they have made it mandatory to have one box per individual, and by law actually there is a penalty. However it’s a common practice here (to share) but as we go along it will have to stop somehow.
We are not going to do it today because we know the limitations, but as we put solutions on the ground we will try to limit this practice.”
He stressed that both government and private organisations need to ensure that they have the right post box numbers in their systems.