Mainland & multi-jurisdiction
UAE mainland and multi-jurisdiction employers, where WPS and MOHRE reconciliation applies in full — and where a single flag freezes your work permits and stalls new hires, not just one payroll run.
New WPS rules · effective 1 June 2026
A new UAE rule can freeze your hiring —
over a payroll error you can't see.
Since 1 June, Resolution 340 means you can pay every salary on time and still fail WPS. Detection is automatic — the system flags you within hours — and Abu Dhabi has stood up a dedicated Labour Prosecution to pursue it.
Independent diagnosis. GovPros can implement the fix, or your PRO can.
Our team has managed labour & immigration for
Who GovPros is built for
Large UAE employers where people are the operation.
100+ employees
Workforces large enough that one person slipping below the 85% line goes unnoticed — with the constant churn of joiners and leavers that keeps payroll, permits and contracts drifting out of sync month to month.
People are the operation
Labour-intensive firms — energy services, manpower, facilities, hospitality, construction, transport, security, cleaning and recruitment — where a permit freeze stalls projects, not just paperwork.
01 / The WPS issue
How a company that pays in full still fails — and what happens next.
WPS checks that what you paid — and who you paid — reconciles against the records MOHRE already holds. The system doesn't ask why you fell below 85%; once flagged, underpaid or mis-recorded companies enter the same escalation.
How companies get flagged01 02 03 04
85% is measured per employee
You can pay total payroll in full, but if one person's recorded amount falls below 85% of their registered salary, the establishment is flagged.
The contract on file doesn't match
MOHRE holds a registered salary for each worker. If your WPS transfer reports less than that figure, it reads as underpayment — even when the employee received every dirham owed.
Allowances paid outside WPS
Housing, transport and site allowances paid off-channel never reach the WPS record. The system only sees the portion that flowed through it — and marks the rest as missing.
Joiners and leavers out of sync
A new hire not yet in WPS, or an exited employee never cancelled, both show as an obligation with no matching payment — a flag for people you either just hired or no longer employ.
None is a failure to pay your people. Each is a reconciliation gap between payroll and MOHRE's records.
Why a flag hurts before it's a fine
The damage starts with your operations. Then it reaches you personally.
Ministerial Resolution 340/2026 freezes permits, transfers and renewals within days. For a growing business, that operational stop is the immediate cost; conditional personal exposure comes later if the violation persists.
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Permits freeze — the business stalls
From Day 5, no new work permits, transfers or renewals until the flag clears. Onboarding, mobilisation and project staffing seize up entirely.
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Category 3 raises every cost
Reclassification to the third MOHRE category raises government service fees across the board and tightens your visa quotas.
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Then it reaches individuals
For repeat violations at scale, precautionary attachment, travel bans on the person responsible, and referral to the Abu Dhabi Labour Prosecution (Resolution 25 of 2025) follow.
02 / The free audit
Your WPS exposure, mapped in seven days.
We reconcile your payroll against MOHRE's records and surface exactly where the gaps above are putting you below the line. Five checks, one risk score.
- 01WPS compliance ratioWhether your on-time payment rate clears the 85% threshold under the new zero-grace rules.
- 02Salary-to-contract mismatchWhether WPS amounts match the salaries registered against each MOHRE contract.
- 03Allowance routingWhether allowances flow through WPS as required, or outside it — a common, silent violation.
- 04New-hire onboarding lagWhether new staff are in WPS from their first pay cycle — the old onboarding grace period was removed under Resolution 340.
- 05Cancellation lagWhether exited employees still appear in your submissions — exposure on people who already left.
Why independent matters
Your PROs can't audit their own work.
Independent diagnosis
We identify the exposure and the exact corrective action first. GovPros can then implement the fix, or your existing PRO can execute our plan.
Built by an ex-Fragomen team
Our team includes former Fragomen professionals, including our Partner, who ran government-facing immigration operations across the UAE and Saudi Arabia — bringing relationships and pattern recognition built over years inside the system.
From finding to closure
The free audit surfaces the exposure. Compliance Resolution turns each finding into a fix, verifies closure and can add optional ongoing monitoring.
Next / Monitoring & resolution
See Monitoring & Resolution →We show you how to fix it—and can do the work if you want us to.
The free diagnostic · 7 days · no cost
See your exposure before MOHRE does.
Independent diagnosis, a clear corrective-action plan, and your choice of who implements it.