Ministry to tackle laborer summer break by having more inspectors work through the midday heat.

The UAE’s Ministry of Labour says it is to get tougher with companies which force laborers to work through the midday heat. Site inspections will be increased to catch employers violating work-time restrictions, which come into force next month. Presumably this means there will be more inspectors having to work between 12.30pm and 3pm. Lucky them.

The Ministry says it upped the site visits from 3,699 in 2006 to 7,070 in 2007. But this year it has a cunning plan to save its inspectors making wasted sweaty trips to building sites. It says the public can report violations via the ministry’s website at www.emol.ae. Is it me, or is it too tempting to have the inspectors running around on wild goose chases?