Everything a UAE HR team needs, in one place
WPS, gratuity, visa expiries and Labour Law entitlements are handled by the system itself. You are not maintaining a spreadsheet alongside it to cover the gaps.
WPS salary files that pass
Lifeguard Payroll builds the SIF export your bank or exchange house expects, in the format they expect it. Before you download anything, it checks the IBANs, the MOL ID and the salary totals. Most rejected transfers come down to one wrong digit, and that is exactly what the check is looking for.
Gratuity worked out for you
21 days of basic pay a year for the first five years, 30 days a year after that, capped at two years' wages. The maths is not hard, but doing it by hand for forty leavers is where mistakes creep in. You get a breakdown you can hand to the employee or defend in a dispute.
Visas and labour cards
Most UAE payroll teams are managing documents for a largely expatriate workforce. Emirates ID, residence visa, labour card and professional licence all sit in one record, and you get warned well before anything lapses rather than the week it expires.
Salary structures that fit
Basic, housing, transport and whatever else you pay, split the way UAE contracts actually split them. That matters because gratuity comes off basic alone, and overtime and WPS each read different components. Mainland and free-zone setups both work.
Attendance and leave
Shifts, overtime rules and leave balances in one place, with the entitlements Labour Law sets for annual, sick and maternity leave already configured. Public holidays are updated when they are announced. Works with biometric devices if you have them.
The whole employee record
Hiring, onboarding, documents, commissions and the eventual exit all attach to the same employee. When someone leaves, the final settlement already knows their start date, their last basic salary and what leave they had left.
Reports for MOHRE and your auditor
Payroll registers, WPS submission history, gratuity provisions and a full audit trail, all exportable to Excel or PDF. When an inspector or an auditor asks for twelve months of something, you are not rebuilding it from bank statements.
Staff can help themselves
Employees pull their own payslips, request leave and find their own documents from a phone. It sounds small. In practice it removes most of what lands in an HR inbox in the first week of every month.
The complete HR & payroll lifecycle
Hiring, paying, tracking documents and handling exits all read from the same employee record, so the same detail is not entered three times.
Payroll & WPS
The monthly run, from salary calculation through to the SIF file sitting in your downloads folder.
- SIF generation for all WPS banks & exchanges
- Approved-channel salary transfers
- Overtime and allowances calculated automatically
- Payslips in English & Arabic
End-of-Service & Gratuity
Final settlements that follow the Labour Law formula, with the workings shown.
- 21/30-day gratuity formula built in
- Two-year wage cap applied automatically
- Leave encashment & outstanding dues
- Ready inside the 14-day window
Visa & Licence Management
One record per employee for every document that can expire, and warnings before it does.
- Emirates ID, visa & labour-card records
- Reminders at 90, 60 and 30 days
- Renewal status tracking
- Document library with secure storage
Attendance & Leave
Time, shifts and leave balances, with UAE entitlements already set up.
- Biometric & mobile check-in ready
- Shift, overtime & holiday rules
- Annual, sick & maternity leave
- Approvals with full history
Hiring & Onboarding
Track candidates through to a first day that is actually organised.
- Candidate pipeline & interviews
- Convert a candidate to an employee in one step
- Reusable onboarding checklist
- Probation & document collection
Offboarding & Termination
Exits handled properly, with assets, access and money all accounted for.
- Exit checklist you can follow
- Asset return & access revocation
- Final settlement starts itself
- Records retained for audits
Commissions & Incentives
Fixed amounts or percentages, approved once and paid with the next run.
- Fixed or percentage-based
- Draft → approved → paid lifecycle
- Flows into monthly payroll
- History per employee
HR Dashboard & Analytics
Where headcount, payroll cost and anything about to expire show up first.
- Headcount & workforce status
- Expiring visas & licences
- Payroll & commission trends
- Hiring & onboarding pipeline
Stay on the right side of UAE regulation
WPS, MOHRE requirements, gratuity rates, Emiratisation targets. These change more often than most software keeps up with, so we track them and update the system.
WPS & MOHRE
SIF files, transfers through approved channels, and salaries inside the 15-day window. All of it logged, which is what matters when someone asks to see it.
Gratuity & EOSB
The 21 and 30-day rates, the two-year cap and the 14-day deadline are applied for you rather than remembered by you.
Emiratisation & Nafis
See your Emirati headcount against target. The penalty for an unfilled skilled role runs to around AED 9,000 a month, so noticing early is the whole point.
DEWS-Ready
Salary components are structured so they map onto the savings schemes some employers use in place of traditional end-of-service pay.
Want to see it on your own payroll?
Half an hour, your numbers, no slide deck. We will show you the WPS run, the gratuity calculation and the visa tracking, and answer whatever you want to ask.
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