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We would like to inform you that the labor law protects the employer and provides for the prevention of the worker from working to a competitor company in case there is an item in the labor law eliminates the competition. And we advise to negotiate with the employer in order to approve the resignation and to allow you to work with the other company to avoid that the employer appliea for compensation if you work for a competitor.
Here is the text of the UAE Labor Law relating to 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 Gregorian 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.

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