Compliance
One platform, six rulebooks.
Each country is a versioned pack of statutory calculations, wage-protection file formats, social insurance, calendars and templates. Each is dated to the day the rule changed, so last year’s payroll still recalculates the way it was actually paid.
Country packs
Where each pack stands today
Honestly, including the ones that are not built. A country page is published when its pack ships and not before.
Live
United Arab Emirates
End-of-service, statutory leave, WPS and the MoHRE rules, applied automatically.
Read UAE rules
What a pack covers
Five things, per country, versioned
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.
UAE, stated
The rules we are willing to put in writing
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, a month’s wages are due on the 1st of the following month, and a company is compliant when at least 85% of the total wages due are paid by then.
Ministerial Resolution 340 of 2026Last verified August 2026
Gratuity
21 days’ basic pay per year for years one to five, and 30 days per year after that. It is capped at two years’ wage and settled within 14 days of the end of the relationship.
Federal Decree-Law 33/2021, Article 51Last 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 19Last verified August 2026
Emiratisation
Companies with 50 or more employees are working to a 10% Emiratisation target across their skilled roles by 31 December 2026.
MOHRE / NafisLast verified August 2026
Ramadan hours
Two hours come off the working day during Ramadan.
MOHRELast 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.
20 minute demo, with a person
Bring us the rule you are unsure about.
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.
In the call
- Your own payroll or roster, run live on screen
- Your country's labour and WPS rules in force
- Every question answered by someone who builds it
No slides and no obligation. Book a time that suits you.