Each country is a versioned pack — statutory calculations, wage-protection file formats, social insurance, calendars and templates — dated to the day the rule changed, so last year’s payroll still recalculates the way it was actually paid.
Honestly, including the ones that are not built. A country page is published when its pack ships and not before.
Saudi Arabia
Mudad wage file, GOSI, end-of-service award, Saudization tracking
The pack is in build. Ask on a call where it stands for your entities.
Qatar
MOL wage file, GRSIA, end-of-service gratuity, Qatarization
The pack is in build. Ask on a call where it stands for your entities.
Oman
MOL wage file, Social Protection Fund, end-of-service, Omanisation tracking
The pack is in build. Ask on a call where it stands for your entities.
Bahrain
LMRA wage file, SIO, leaving indemnity, LMRA permit fees
The pack is in build. Ask on a call where it stands for your entities.
Kuwait
MOSAL wage file, PIFSS, end-of-service indemnity, Kuwaitisation tracking
The pack is in build. Ask on a call where it stands for your entities.
A pack is not a setting. It is a dated ruleset — which is what lets a payroll from eighteen months ago recalculate the way it was actually paid rather than the way the rules read today.
Wage protection
The file format the labour authority expects, and the validations that stop it bouncing.
Social insurance
Contribution rates and bases, with nationals and expatriates treated separately where the law does.
End of service
The accrual basis, the cap, and the deadline for settling it.
Nationalisation
Targets, banding and the reporting that goes with them.
Calendar & working week
The weekend, the public holidays, and the ones that move with the Hijri year.
Templates
Contracts, letters and certificates in the wording each authority expects.
Each one with its source and the month it was last checked. If a date here is stale, that is our failure and worth telling us about.
WPS timing
From 1 June 2026, wages are due on the 1st of the month and 85% of the workforce must clear.
MOHRE · last verified August 2026
Gratuity
21 days’ basic pay per year for years one to five, and 30 days per year after that — capped at two years’ wage, and settled within 14 days of the end of the relationship.
Federal Decree-Law 33/2021, Article 51 · last verified August 2026
Overtime
Overtime is paid at basic plus 25%, rising to basic plus 50% for hours worked between 22:00 and 04:00.
Federal Decree-Law 33/2021, Article 19 · last verified August 2026
Emiratisation
Companies with 50 or more skilled staff are working to a 10% Emiratisation target by 31 December 2026.
MOHRE / Nafis · last verified August 2026
Ramadan hours
Two hours come off the working day during Ramadan.
MOHRE · last verified August 2026
Languages
Dawmo ships eight interface languages, including Arabic and Urdu set right to left.
HRMS feature specification §8.1 · last verified August 2026
This page describes how Dawmo handles these rules. It is not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for your own advisers — particularly on anything where your contracts, your entity structure or your sector changes the answer.
Most calls start with one specific question — a file the bank rejected, a gratuity figure that does not match, a target you are being measured against. Those are the good ones.