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When managing multiple legal entities in the UAE, the strategic choice to operate both in the mainland and free zone jurisdictions can generate serious administrative challenges for finance and HR departments.

Setting up payroll in the UAE is rarely a straightforward process, especially when you have employees working both on the mainland and within the free zones. At this point, you need to remember that there are, in essence, two ways of paying salaries, each of which is specific to a given location.

Over the past few years, the business environment in the UAE has undergone a massive transformation. What used to be a flexible, loosely regulated payroll landscape has evolved into a highly automated, strictly monitored ecosystem. With unified WPS salary deadlines enforced across the country,...