‘Update Omani workers’ details through PASI’

Details of wages of expatriate manpower should be updated through the portals of employers, the Ministry of Manpower said

MUSCAT: Details of wages of Omani manpower should be updated through the Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI), the Ministry of Manpower has said.

Details of wages of expatriate manpower should be updated through the portals of employers using the “Service of amendment /revision of wages of non-Omani manpower”, it added.

In an announcement last Monday, it said: “The Ministry, in cooperation with the Central Bank of Oman, is upgrading and updating the wage protection system and the launch of unified wages formula in the banking transfer of manpower wages.

“Stemming from the Ministry’s keenness to ensure stability of work at private sector establishments, and endeavour to enhance the development of systems and services offered to employers and manpower, to guarantee success of this programme and ensure that it achieves its desired goals, the ministry calls upon all private sector establishments to use the aforementioned unified formulae to transfer the wages of their employees.

“Employers should also ensure that their establishments are registered in the wages protection system (WPS) at the bank branches in which their accounts are registered.

“The ministry urges employers to commit to wage transfers according to the new formula, starting with November 2017 wages. The ministry will grant a period of three months for employers to comply with the new formula, and will not accept any other formula after the end of February 2018,” the Ministry of Manpower said.