India, June 18 -- A company in Abu Dhabi has been ordered to pay AED 110,400 as 'unpaid wages' to an employee who received an offer letter but was never allowed to join work. According to a report in The Khaleej Times, the employee filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that his salary for the period between November 11, 2024 to April 7, 2025, was withheld by his employers.

The employee, who was not named in the report, said that he had signed a fixed-term contract with the company. The terms of his employment contract included a basic salary of 7,200 AED and a total monthly package of 24,000 AED.

However, the company kept delaying the date on which he was supposed to begin work.

The employee took the company to court over the l...