What is article 127 and 128

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We would like to inform you that UAE Labor Law has granted the employer the right to add a condition in the contract of employment relating to the worker's obligation not to work with any rival company or the employer may request compensation from the worker for breaching of this non-competition requirement. This condition shall be written in the contract of employment, and if this condition is not written in the contract, the worker may work for any other competitor.
Also, if your employer holds your passport and does not return it to you without a legal reason, you can file a complaint at the police station and submit an additional complaint to the Ministry of Human Resources.
Here is the text of the UAE Labor Law concerning your inquiry:
Article 127:
Where the work assigned to a worker allows him to become acquainted with the employer's clients or to have access to his business secrets, the employer may require him to undertake not to compete with him or participate in any enterprise competing with his own, after the termination of his contract. For such an undertaking to be valid, the worker must be at least 21 years of age at the time the agreement is concluded, and the agreement must be confined, in terms of time, place and the nature of the business, to the extent necessary to safeguard the employer's legitimate interests
Article 128
A non-National worker, who abandons his work without a valid reason before the expiry of his definite term contract, may not, even with the employer's consent, take up other employment until the lapse of one year from the date on which he abandons his work. No other employer may knowingly recruit such worker or keep him in his service before the lapse of such period.
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