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Order No. 81 of 2014 on Unemployment Insurance.

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Saudi Arabia
Unemployment benefit
2014-02-14
National
Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

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Those who have lost their jobs will be entitled to up to 12 months of compensation, set at a rate of 60 % of the employee's average salary earned over the previous three years for the first three months and then 50 % for the following nine months.
All Saudi workers in both the private and public sectors will be charged 1% of their monthly salary as a compulsory contribution and their employer will pay the same amount.

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    Date of entry into force
    2014-09-01
    180 days after publishing it in the Official Gazette

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