# What is MOHRE?

MOHRE stands for Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation.

MOHRE is the UAE federal ministry that regulates private-sector employment, issuing work permits and labour cards and enforcing the Wage Protection System and Emiratisation quotas.

## MOHRE explained

MOHRE administers the unified employment contract, work permits, labour cards, and the labour dispute process for mainland establishments. It also operates the Wage Protection System jointly with the Central Bank and enforces Emiratisation targets through the Nafis framework.

Free zone entities are typically regulated by their own authority rather than MOHRE — DIFC and ADGM have separate employment regimes — so an employer operating across mainland and free zones is subject to more than one rulebook simultaneously.

MOHRE classifies establishments into categories that affect fee levels and permit access. Wage-protection breaches can trigger reclassification to a less favourable category, which raises the cost of every subsequent transaction.

Official source: [MOHRE](https://www.mohre.gov.ae)

## How NeuralHR.AI handles MOHRE

- [MOHRE-compliant HRMS UAE](https://neuralhr.ai/en/mohre-compliant-hrms-uae)

## Related terms

- [WPS](https://neuralhr.ai/en/hr-glossary/wps): The Wage Protection System (WPS) is the UAE's mandatory electronic salary transfer system, operated by MOHRE and the Central Bank, through which private-sector employers must pay registered workers.
- [Emiratisation](https://neuralhr.ai/en/hr-glossary/emiratisation): Emiratisation is the UAE policy requiring private-sector employers with 50 or more skilled staff to raise the Emirati share of skilled roles by 2% each year, reaching 10% by the end of 2026.
- [DIFC](https://neuralhr.ai/en/hr-glossary/difc): DIFC is a Dubai financial free zone with its own employment law, DIFC Employment Law No. 2 of 2019, which applies instead of the federal UAE Labour Law.
- [ADGM](https://neuralhr.ai/en/hr-glossary/adgm): ADGM is an Abu Dhabi financial free zone with its own employment regulations, which apply to ADGM-registered employers instead of the federal UAE Labour Law.

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