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LAW TODAY

WhAt A LAW Degree Offers Written by: Lulwa AlBakri
Edited by: Sarah AlHabeeb & Khadija Mohamed

What do you want to be when you grow up? What major do you specialize in. If you think you’re excellent in legal writing, you can as it combines the role of human resource professionals and
want to spend the majority of your life pursuing? These are the become a legal writer or a legal editor. If you prefer being social legal professionals in order to work with senior management to
types of questions that follow us during our high school years. The and don’t like being in confined work offices, you can become a develop recruitment strategies, attract and hire legal personnel,
way we choose answer them can have a huge impact on our lives. legal professor. Moreover, this smoothly answers the second and and develop strategies to retain employees.
third question by emphasizing that a law degree provides students
After graduating from school, students often choose their various career paths that fall within the field of law and as a result, Finally, as students are introduced to such questions, they will
long-lasting careers blindly, ignoring or taking lightly important studying law doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll immediately realise that studying law doesn't always mean that you will be
questions that should be asked before making decisions such as become a lawyer expected to work in a law firm only. You can restricted to working in a law firm; the answers show that a law
these. As a law student in particular, there are a number important pursue your career in private companies as most of them offer degree can give you the option of working in private companies,
questions that you should make sure to ask yourself in order to legal departments, such as Apple, KPMG, or in the public sectors corporate legal offices, governmental offices, freelance attorneys
ensure you are making the right decision. Some questions may such as in the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Education and much more places, leaving the choice to students depending
include: and so on. The plentiful options provide students with a sea of on the nature of law they want to purse.
opportunities that they can purse depending on their choice of
1- What careers can you pursue with a law degree? career. To answer the fourth question, if students face difficulty
2- What broad opportunities does a law degree provide? searching for job alternatives, some alternatives a law degree
3- Does studying law immediately mean that you’ll become a can provide include becoming s law firm administrator whose
lawyer? main job is to manage a law firm’s administrative operations as
4- What alternatives can a law degree provide you? well as to oversee the financial and marketing functions. You can
5- Does studying law always mean that you must work at a law also become a civil rights investigator. The job title of this is self-
firm? explanatory; we all have a set of civil rights to ensure we receive
equal treatment. If these rights are breached, people turn to a
Knowing the answers to these essential questions is a very civil rights investigator, who would investigate the circumstances
important step in making certain that the career you chose in which an individual’s civil rights have been violated. In addition,
is suitable for you. First of all, the most common question law law graduates can become a law librarian, who is responsible for
students usually face is “You’re a law student? So that means you’ll research, analysis and assessment of data reliability, performance
be a great lawyer.”. The truth is that students studying law don’t and validity, education of other legal professionals, and arranging,
have to become lawyers; a law degree can provide you plentiful classifying, preserving and locating tools and materials in the law
career opportunities depending on what track you choose to library. A legal recruiter is also a really interesting career alternative

LAW

TODAY The last few years have witnessed rights or powers. Therefore, for the longest confirm the concept of equal employment

the immense growth when it comes to equality time, there had been no answer to the opportunities, and to ensure that the only
difference in the employment process
question: “Who is the working woman?”,
and women’s rights. For centuries women
as according to Article 2 of the Saudi Labor
have always played an important role in
between men and women is competence
WOrking our society, whether as mothers, wives, Law, the definition of a “worker” was and qualifications, therefore, this article
considered in the eyes of the law to be
was amended to ensure that any situation
or daughters. However, in the last decade,
that results in gender discrimination or any
the presence of women emerged in an
ambiguous. It did not specify if it applies
WOmen important sector of society, the working on both men and women, however, it kind of discrimination is avoided. Thus,
the amended version of Article 3 states
sector. As the role of women became more
was inferred. It is a completely different
that “Work is a right of a citizen, and no
thing for a woman to be considered a
prevalent, the law also adjusted to fit and
AnD LAW support the working women. However, “worker” in law based on an inferred one else may exercise it except after the
analysis of law articles, and for it to be
there were still gaps in the legal system
conditions set forth. Citizens are equal in
regarding the rights of working women or
based on sex, disability, age or any other
has been adjusted to clarify what it means
more specifically the definition of a working written clearly. The definition of a worker the right to work without discrimination
Written by Sarah AlHabeeb woman. Thus, one of the most important to be a “worker” and make it official that form of discrimination, whether during
Edited by Naif AlDhaban
developments is in the field of labor law. it includes both men and women to avoid work, employment or advertising”.
Labor law is generally defined as a set any situation that could lead to gender
of legal rules governing the relationship segregation. Therefore, as stated by the These changes should not be considered
between workers and employers. It Saudi Labor Law, a worker is “Any natural merely an amendment to the law. All
contains the laws that regulate factors person -whether male or female- working these changes appear to show that the
in the working environment such as for an employer under his management legal system recognizes the importance
employment, wages, working conditions, or supervision for a wage, even if he is not of women's contribution to the labor
and the relationship between co-workers. under his direct control”. Consequently, it system. For a long period of time the
is in the year of 2019, that the question of rights of working women were unclear or
This year has marked a year of substantial “who is the working woman?” has been disputed upon, due to the fact that many
modifications in the Labor Law articles. answered legally. were still unacquainted with the idea of
These amendments include 3 important the “working woman”. Therefore, these
modifications. The first is the definition Also, another important modification is that changes show that the idea of “working
of a “worker”. Definitions are of extreme of Article 3, which previously stated that women” is fully accepted and supported
importance in law, it is based on these all citizens are equal in the right to work. by the law, which indicates that there will
definitions that the law grants certain However, this article has been amended to be more developments to come.