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Private-sector employees in the UAE are entitled to 30 calendar days of paid annual leave after one year of service, up to 90 days of sick leave per year on a tiered pay structure, and seven public holiday occasions set annually by Cabinet decree, several of which depend on moon sighting and shift by a…

A UAE employment visa is issued to the employer, not the employee. It requires a MOHRE work permit — or the free zone equivalent — before an entry permit can be issued, and the full sequence runs quota approval, offer letter, work permit, entry permit, medical fitness and Emirates ID, then residence visa stamping. Realistic…

The UAE private sector is governed by Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021, in force since 2 February 2022, which replaced the 1980 labour law and abolished unlimited and limited contracts in favour of a single fixed-term model. MOHRE regulates mainland and standard free zone employment; DIFC and ADGM run their own separate employment regimes.…

If you employ someone in the UAE and they resign or are terminated, you owe them a lump-sum payment called end-of-service gratuity — and it isn’t optional, negotiable, or waivable by contract. For most UK employers with a single UAE hire, the first time this becomes real is the week the employee gives notice, when…

If you’re hiring in Sri Lanka without a local entity, an Employer of Record is usually the fastest compliant route — but “EOR coverage” in Sri Lanka means different things depending on who’s selling it. Some providers operate through their own in-country entity; others run Sri Lanka through a partner network as one of 150+…

Sri Lanka has quietly become one of the more capable, lower-noise offshore tech markets in Asia — smaller than India, more specialised than the Philippines, and priced well below UK or EU in-house hiring. This guide is a neutral look at what’s actually available: the size and shape of the talent pool, what roles really…

If you’re budgeting a Sri Lanka hire, the minimum wage itself is rarely the number that matters — most roles employers are actually filling (developers, support staff, finance, ops) sit well above it. But it’s still the statutory floor everything else is measured against, and it catches out foreign employers in two specific ways: assuming…

If you are hiring in Sri Lanka for the first time, tax is usually the part of the process that slows everyone down. Between APIT withholding on salaries, corporate income tax on the entity, and withholding tax on cross-border payments, it is easy to either overpay, underpay, or miss a filing deadline in the first…

If you’re an HR lead, mobility manager, or company director arranging a business trip to Sri Lanka — or bringing a foreign hire into the country — the advice available online won’t get you very far. Search “Sri Lanka business visa” and you’ll mostly find two things: foreign-government travel advisories written for tourists, and ETA…

Sri Lanka observes 26 public and bank holidays in 2026, including 13 Poya (full moon) days — one more than usual because of a rare double full moon in the same lunar cycle. For employers, this calendar isn’t just a list of days off. It determines payroll cut-offs, project deadlines, and — because Sri Lanka…