4 controls for 'Electricity' employees' transfers

Dr. Adel Al-Zamil, Deputy Minister of Electricity, Water, and Renewable Energy, issued a decision regulating the mechanism for receiving transfer requests from ministry employees and specifying the controls and procedures to be followed by employees and relevant departments, based on Ministerial Decision No. 288 of 2026 regarding the opening of the application window for transfers between organizational units within the ministry, effective from next Sunday.

The decision outlined the procedure for submitting transfer requests, requiring any employee wishing to transfer to complete a transfer form containing all required data, clearly stating the reasons and justifications for the transfer request, and attaching a recent copy of their civil ID. The form must be approved by the employee’s direct supervisor and the manager of the department to which the employee belongs.

The decision specified four fundamental responsibilities incumbent upon the employee submitting the transfer request. The first is that the employee bears responsibility for the accuracy of the data, reasons, and justifications stated in the request. The second is the obligation to commence duties within two weeks from the date of issuance of the administrative transfer decision, with no possibility of withdrawing the transfer decision after it has been issued.

The controls also stipulated the rejection of all requests submitted by an employee who has filed more than one transfer request. Furthermore, applications to transfer to organizational units not listed in the tables of departments permitted for transfer, in accordance with Ministerial Decision No. 267 of 2024, are not permitted. Any request submitted in violation of this provision shall be considered null and void.