Article 11 of the Saudi Job Search Allowance Regulation

This article opens the judicial route to object to allowance decisions. After Article 10 (paragraph 8) made the Human Resources Development Fund the body that receives and decides grievances, this article provides that someone whose grievance was refused may challenge the refusal decision before the competent administrative court.

This right covers three categories under the definitions in Article 1:

• The applicant, such as someone whose application was refused at the outset.
• The qualified person, meaning someone whose application was accepted and for whom payment has not begun.
• The beneficiary, meaning a qualified person who receives the allowance.

The practical sequence is therefore two stages: a grievance first before the Fund, then, if the grievance is refused, resorting to the administrative court. This article sets no period for challenging before the administrative court, so the deadlines and procedures are found in the laws governing administrative justice. For this reason, anyone who wishes to take their grievance to the administrative court should consult a lawyer who specializes in administrative cases to learn the deadlines and procedures.

Note that the article speaks of challenging the “refusal decision”, meaning the refusal of the grievance submitted in order to obtain the allowance.