₹26 Lakh Pay: A man who got a job in a company, got a salary of almost Rs. 26 lakhs without working a single day. According to the contract, he was to work for five months from November 2024 at a salary of Rs. 1.69 lakhs per month. However, when the company did not call him to join the job, the man approached the court and got compensation. This incident took place in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Earlier, a UAE court awarded a compensation of Rs. 11 crores to an Indian student who was injured in a road accident.
Going into details, a person entered into an agreement with a company for a job. According to that agreement.. an Abu Dhabi-based company… hired a person with a basic salary of 7200 dirhams (approximately ₹1.70 lakh) and a total monthly salary of 24,000 dirhams (approximately ₹5.65 lakh). A five-month contract was signed from November 11, 2024 to April 7, 2025. But despite this, the company kept postponing the joining date and did not pay the salary. Tired of waiting, the person filed a lawsuit in court.
The UAE court, which took up the matter, ruled in his favor. The lawyer representing the company requested that the case be transferred to another department, but the court refused. Based on the salary details and contract documents, it was determined that the company itself had violated the rules. According to the UAE labor law, salaries must be paid on time. It ruled that salaries cannot be withheld unless the employee officially agrees or the company has legal evidence.
However, the company alleged that the employee had not attended work and had taken leave. But the court found that there was no proper investigation into the matter. The man accepted eight days of leave and the court ordered the company to pay him 18 days’ salary for four months. The court rejected the company’s claim as it could not provide any evidence to support its claim. The court said that “the company failed to implement the agreement”. Therefore, it ordered the employee to pay Rs. 26 lakh. It is known that an Indian billionaire was recently sentenced to prison by a Dubai court in a money laundering case.
A similar incident has occurred in Spain in the past. Joaquin Garcia, an employee of the Cadiz municipal government, was paid without showing up for work for at least six years. When the matter came to light in 2010, it was revealed that he was already receiving an honorarium for his “long service”. The 69-year-old engineer had been a government employee since 1990. In 1996, he was transferred to the city’s water supply department and asked to supervise a sewage treatment plant. However, despite his long-term leave, he received full pay. The city’s deputy mayor, Jorge Fernandez, was quoted as saying by a local newspaper: “He is on the payroll. I am surprised. Where is this man? Has he retired? Has he died?”
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