UAE Private-Sector Overtime Day Checker
Check one worked date against a narrow federal private-sector scope. Unsupported categories and legal-limit breaches return no amount.
⚠️ Disclaimer: This is a narrow informational estimate, not a determination of legal entitlement. It supports only the scope shown below and uses official references reviewed on 30 July 2026. Contracts and work regulations may grant more favourable terms.
1. Scope preflight
Each answer matters. The checker fails closed where a different law, pay model, or working-hours exclusion may apply.
Select the first option only if Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021 governs this private-sector employment.
The official monthly-to-hourly guide formula is basic salary ÷ 30 ÷ 8.
These categories come from Article 20 and Implementing Regulation Article 15. Choose “none” only if you are confident.
2. Worked date and limits
This is a one-day check. It does not accept an aggregate bucket of overtime hours.
Basic salary only; exclude housing, transport, bonuses, and other allowances.
Supported legal-reference window: 2022-02-02 through 2026-07-30.
The law does not assume Friday. The checker compares this answer with the worked date.
Official-holiday compensation is a separate rule and intentionally fails closed here.
The normal schedule is reduced by two hours during Ramadan. The hourly basic-rate divisor remains 8 under the MOHRE guide formula.
Include normal and additional hours, including this date. Article 19 caps the total at 144 hours every three weeks.
3. Ordinary-day overtime
Enter only hours beyond the normal hours for this date. Daytime and 10pm–4am overtime are separated so the night exception can be applied.
The 50% night uplift in Article 19(3) does not apply to shift workers; qualifying overtime remains on the ordinary 25% path.
The combined ordinary-day overtime entered here may not exceed 2 hours.
Legal and evidence boundary
- Supported only for an adult, monthly-paid, full-time worker governed by the federal private-sector Labour Law on the standard eight-hour daily schedule.
- Ordinary overtime is checked per date against the two-hour daily limit and the supplied 144-hour three-week total. Exceptional-loss or accident cases are not evaluated.
- Public holidays, juveniles, other laws or work models, variable rest days, and Article 20 / Implementing Regulation exclusions return no amount.
- Statutory percentages are minimums. A contract, collective policy, or work regulation can provide more favourable terms.
- Official references reviewed 30 July 2026; supported worked dates end on that review date until the legal reference is refreshed.
Narrow rate reference
| Supported path | Checker treatment |
|---|---|
| Ordinary overtime | 125% |
| 10pm–4am, non-shift worker | 150% |
| 10pm–4am, shift worker | 125% |
| Contractual rest day, cash route | 150% |
| Contractual rest day, substitute day | No cash amount shown |