I'm hiring my first employee — how do I actually register for WPS?

Before anything else, you need an active establishment registration with the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MOHRE) carrying a valid establishment number — that's the foundation everything in the Wage Protection System (WPS) is built on. The pivotal next step is choosing a bank, exchange house, or finance company approved by the Central Bank to act as your WPS "agent," opening or linking your company account there, and signing the agent agreement that sets out fees and obligations. After that, you activate the WPS service through the MOHRE portal by entering your agent bank's details and your account number, and wait for verification until the status turns "Active."

The final step, and the one that repeats every month, is registering each employee's details (labour card number, Emirates ID, bank account or IBAN, contracted salary) with the agent bank, then generating a Salary Information File (SIF) and submitting it by the agreed pay date. What matters most is that the registered salary matches the contract filed with the Ministry exactly — even a small mismatch between the two figures now gets flagged almost immediately. RASEEKH sets these steps up alongside your bookkeeping from day one, so the first payroll run goes out on time without hiccups.