WPS compliance and the SIF file

What you will be able to do when you finish: read Ministerial Resolution 340/2026 the way the Ministry reads it, run a WPS compliance period in Odoone from Collect Payroll to Assess, tell the two 85% tests apart and know which facts belong to which, place an establishment correctly on the Annex 1 enforcement ladder including the conditions that most summaries drop, apply Article 4's eleven exclusions without inventing a twelfth, and take a SIF file from validation to a sealed export and a booked journal entry.

Who this is for. You run payroll for a UAE establishment, or you are the person the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation will call when wages are late. This is an Advanced course. It assumes you know what a payslip run is and that you have seen a bank transfer file before, but it does not assume you have read the resolution.

How to follow along. Every screen named here is in the Odoone HR WPS & End of Service module, under the Employees menu. One honest caveat before you start: the module ships no SIF bank layout, so the SIF screens have nothing to select until your bank's current specification is loaded as a layout record. Lesson 8 explains why that is a deliberate decision and exactly what to ask your bank for. End-of-service and annual-leave provisioning are the other half of the same module and are covered in course 4.3, not here.

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