Payroll anomaly check
Trigger
Plant payroll calculated
- Added overtime and piece-rate pay
- Prepared the WPS salary file
- Flagged unpaid leave outliers
Result
Ready to review
You: Lock the run
Solutions
Industry · Manufacturing and industrial
HR and payroll for plants in the UAE’s industrial zones
Manufacturing is one of the UAE’s largest and fastest-growing non-oil sectors. Peoplo.ai keeps shifts, skills, visas and payroll in one place for every plant.
PayrollSample
October 2026 · KIZAD plant
186 employees · Ready to review
- Employees in the WPS file
- 186
- Overtime
- AED 64,200
- Piece-rate pay
- AED 38,750
- Unpaid leave days
- 37
Review payslips
Sound familiar?
Three shifts, by hand
Rosters, absences and overtime reconciled on paper before payroll.
Skills and certificates
Machine and safety certificates that must be current before someone works a line.
Housing and welfare
Large workforces on low wages, with accommodation and welfare rules to follow.
UAE rules
The rules your HR team works to
The UAE rules that shape HR and payroll in manufacturing, with a source for each.
Labour accommodation
Establishments with 50 or more workers earning up to AED 1,500 a month must house them in accommodation registered in MOHRE’s system.
Source: UAE Government: labour accommodationOvertime and rest days
Overtime is paid at least 25% extra, rising to 50% between 10 pm and 4 am except for shift workers. Work on a rest day earns another day off, or pay plus 50%.
Source: UAE Government: working hours and overtime in the private sectorMidday break for outdoor work
Work under the sun and in open places stops between 12:30 pm and 3 pm from 15 June to 15 September.
Source: UAE Government: working hours, including the midday breakGeneral information, not legal advice. Checked 31 October 2026.
Before and after
What changes when Peoplo.ai does the groundwork
Today
With Peoplo.ai
Overtime worked out by hand
Rosters, overtime and piece-rate in payroll
Certificates checked at the line
Required certificates per job title, with expiry alerts
Each plant with its own process
One set of rules across plants
Settlements paid late
Settlements prepared on the last day
AI agents at work
How AI agents help manufacturing teams
Each agent picks up a trigger, does the groundwork and hands you a result to approve. Here’s what that looks like for you.
Onboarding coordinator
Trigger
20 joiners across two plants
- Created plans per plant
- Added safety induction tasks
- Requested ID cards
Result
Every joiner covered
You: Send the plans
Exit coordinator
Trigger
Contract end for 12 workers
- Set last days
- Worked out settlements with end-of-service
- Listed safety gear to return
Result
12 settlements ready
You: Approve each one
How Peoplo.ai helps
What you get with Peoplo.ai
Shifts into payrollRosters, timesheets, hourly and piece-rate pay and paid overtime flow into payroll and the WPS file.Payroll and compliance
Skills before shiftsRequired skills and certificates per job title, a skills matrix and gap reports, with expiry alerts.Core HR
Plant by plantEach plant a location, with its own rosters, holidays and headcount.Leave and attendance
Exits settled on timeSettlements with end-of-service prepared from payroll and leave as soon as the last day is set.Hiring, onboarding and exits
Through the year
What it looks like in practice
An illustrative example.
- Every weekMachine and safety certificates expiring in 30 days listed for supervisors.
- JuneOutdoor shifts moved out of the 12:30 to 3 pm window.
- MonthlyOvertime and piece-rate pay into payroll, WPS file ready by the 1st.
- Contract endWorkers’ exits settled with end-of-service within 14 days.
The future of work
Plants will run HR as precisely as production
Agents will bring the same discipline to pay, skills and workforce changes that plants apply on the line.
Manual overtime Designed in
Shifts and overtime applied every run.
Skills on paper Skills matrix
The right certificates before the shift.
Late exits On-time exits
End-of-service ready within 14 days.
Peoplo.ai is built for this shift: agents prepare, people decide.
Why Peoplo.ai
Why manufacturers choose Peoplo.ai
AI agents that ask first
Agents do the preparation and stop for approval. Approvals go to the audit log, and each agent can be switched off.
Built for the UAE
Payroll designed to support WPS salary files and end-of-service for mainland, DIFC and ADGM, with a payroll guide and calculator kept current.
HR and operations on one record
People, pay, goals, claims, assets and passwords together, so nothing falls between tools.
Clear prices, fast start
AED 12 per employee a month, published in AED. Import your people from a CSV and start the same week.
ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001 certifications are held by the company behind Peoplo.ai. Built for GDPR and SOC 2. No SOC 2 certificate yet.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about Peoplo.ai for UAE companies.
Can supervisors approve leave and timesheets?
Yes. Set supervisors as managers, and approvals appear on their Home page.
Does Peoplo.ai manage worker accommodation?
No. Accommodation is registered with MOHRE. Peoplo.ai keeps the people side: rosters, pay, documents and exits.
Can plants have different weekly offs and holidays?
Holidays can be set per location, and weekly offs are set for the company.
Can we track machine and safety certificates?
Yes. Set required certificates per job title, record them per person and get alerts before they expire.
See Peoplo.ai set up for manufacturing
We’ll run the agents on your policies and payroll rules in the demo.