English abstract
The rules that govern the employment relationships in general have developed considerably and in particular the rules that govern wages rates due to the changing social and economic circumstances. In reality, we have a reasonable satisfactory picture of the general wage condition that fits perfectly with such circumstances and ensures fair and balanced relationship between the employer and employee. These developments are clearly reflected in the prevailing legal system that regulates the payment of employees' financial entitlements and gripped the serious attention of the Arab and international labor organizations as far as the governments and employers are concerned besides the employees themselves. Therefore, it has become an issue of much interest in the national labor laws as well as among the researchers involved in labor relationships. The study of the legal protection for wages in the Omani Labor Law is both academically and practically useful. At the academic level, the research is addressing an issue that affects a large segment of the society and it requires substantial contributory efforts to define and tackle it. The researcher is hopeful that this study can be part of these contributory efforts. At the practical level, the research deals with an issue that has tremendous impact in the social, economic and legal status not only in Sultanate of Oman but in the national legislations as well. This research defines that the wage concept, its forms, entitlement and other employment standard payments in order to identify the basic principles for the protection of wage and the legal provisions that regulate its entitlement. This is addition to the elements of the legal protection for the wages and the mechanisms for enforcement whether amicable or judicial. The researcher used the analytical approach to clarify the legal aspects of wage protection by analyzing the provisions of the Omani Labor Law that govern the employee financial entitlements besides jurisprudential opinions and judicial precedents of the Supreme Court in comparison to Arab and foreign legislations, where necessary, to determine the clarity or ambiguity of these provisions and how effective and adequate they are to provide the sufficient legal protection for the wage.
