Everhour turns project hours into reports and billing inputs for teams working across Middle Eastern labor rules.
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A project time tracking app for the Middle East helps you record who worked, which project the time belongs to, and which country rules affect payroll or billing review. The region has no single Middle East-wide working-time recording mandate equivalent to the EU CJEU rule, so employers need records that match each country where employees work.
The practical goal is a clean weekly and monthly view by person, client, project, and location. A UAE employee, a Saudi employee, and a Qatar employee can sit on the same client project, but their ordinary hours, Ramadan reductions, overtime premiums, and privacy obligations must be reviewed through the correct country lens.
A useful setup starts with the fields that drive decisions: employee, date, start and end time, break time, project, task, client, billable status, work location, and approval status. The project field supports billing and profitability. The country or legal entity field supports payroll review and working-hours checks.
Project records also need time categories that match local review points. UAE private-sector working hours are generally capped at 8 hours per day or 48 hours per week, with daily hours reduced by 2 hours during Ramadan. Qatar uses an 8-hour day or 48-hour week baseline, reduced during Ramadan to 6 hours per day or 36 hours per week.
The main mistake is treating the Middle East as one reporting jurisdiction. A regional dashboard can show total hours and billable utilization, but payroll review needs country-specific columns and filters. Saudi labor law generally limits actual working hours to 8 hours per day or 48 hours per week, reduced for Muslim employees during Ramadan to 6 hours per day or 36 hours per week.
Overtime review also needs separation by country and timing. UAE overtime is generally normal pay plus at least 25%, rising to at least 50% extra for overtime between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. except for shift-based work. Qatar has a similar standard premium structure, with night work between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. paid at basic wage plus at least 50% except for shift workers.
A simple weekly total is enough for a small internal check, a one-client contractor report, or a quick reconciliation before sending hours to finance. It stops being enough once several countries, payroll calendars, client invoices, approvals, and overtime review all depend on the same time data.
A managed workflow gives managers a durable record across projects and clients. Everhour can turn logged project time into customizable reports with columns, grouping, metadata filters, exports, scheduled email delivery, profitability dashboards, and overtime visibility through Team Hours and custom reports. Keep privacy review separate too: identifiable employee time entries are personal data under local regimes such as the UAE PDPL, Saudi PDPL, and Qatar Law No. 13 of 2016.
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No. The Middle East has no single region-wide rule equivalent to the EU CJEU working-time recording mandate. Time tracking obligations and recordkeeping practices depend on each country's labor and payroll rules, so a regional employer should configure records by country, legal entity, employee group, and payroll process.
A regional project app should include work country, legal entity, employee, date, start and end time, breaks, project, task, client, billable status, and approval status. Those fields let managers separate project profitability from country-level payroll checks, especially where Ramadan hours or overtime premiums change the review.
Ramadan can change ordinary working-hour baselines in specific countries. UAE private-sector daily working hours are reduced by 2 hours during Ramadan. Saudi labor law reduces hours for Muslim employees to 6 hours per day or 36 hours per week. Qatar reduces ordinary working hours during Ramadan to 6 hours per day or 36 hours per week.
No. Overtime should be reported by country because premiums and time windows differ. Saudi overtime is compensated at the worker's hourly wage plus 50% of the basic wage, and work on holidays and Eids is treated as overtime. UAE and Qatar rules include different night-work windows and shift-work exceptions.
Identifiable employee time entries are personal data. Employers in major Middle Eastern markets need handling rules that match local privacy regimes, including the UAE PDPL, Saudi PDPL, and Qatar Law No. 13 of 2016. Access controls, retention, export handling, and monitoring practices should match the country where the data is processed.
Everhour Reporting lets teams build reports with 45+ columns, grouping, filters, metadata, date ranges, and exports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF. A regional manager can separate project, client, member, billable time, labor cost, invoice status, and overtime visibility for country-aware review.
Everhour Timesheets let users submit weekly project hours or working hours for review. Managers can approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time, and approved time stays locked for regular members, which keeps billing and payroll review from changing after signoff.
Track approved project hours by country, client, and team. Everhour Reporting turns logged time into filtered exports, scheduled reports, and profitability views that support regional billing and payroll review.
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