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The Qatar HR Suite

Give your HR team their week back.

Chasing paper attendance sheets. Rebuilding WPS files by hand every month. Recalculating end of service in a spreadsheet nobody trusts. Re-reading the labour law each time it is amended. Centra does all of it — fourteen connected apps, one employee record, in Arabic and English.

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Law No. 9 of 2026 Arabic & English WPS ready EOSB Art. 54
Payroll Attendance Leave Contracts
Biometric Portal Documents Loans
14 modules
one integrated suite
Law No. 14
2004 + 2020 reforms
العربية + EN
every screen, both languages
Your server
your data, your control

The difference

Qatar's labour law keeps evolving.
Centra keeps pace.

Law No. 14 of 2004 has been amended and supplemented many times over — a minimum wage, free employer transfer, mandatory health cover, Qatarisation quotas, and a major overhaul in 2026. Generic HR software makes you re-configure after every change. Centra ships the rules as code, and updates them when the law does.

Law No. 14 of 2004

The Labour Law itself

The statute everything else amends: contracts and probation, working hours and overtime, annual and sick leave, wage-deduction limits, and end-of-service gratuity.

  • Contracts, probation and notice built to Articles 35–47
  • End-of-service benefits computed per Article 54
  • Wage deductions capped per Article 70 — over-limit loans are refused
  • 48-hour week, 36-hour Ramadan week, overtime at 125% and 150%
Law No. 1 of 2015 · Ministerial Decision No. 4 of 2015

Wage Protection System

Article 66 was amended to require wages be paid by electronic transfer into Qatari bank accounts, on time — enforced through the Wage Protection System, with penalties raised again in later reforms.

  • WPS files generated for bank submission every pay cycle
  • IBAN held and validated on the employee record
  • Late or missing payments visible before they become a violation
Law No. 13 of 2017 · Law No. 15 of 2017

Dispute committees and domestic workers

Labour Dispute Settlement Committees were created to rule within weeks instead of years, and domestic workers received legal protection for the first time.

  • Disciplinary actions and warnings kept with a full, dated audit trail
  • Documented history ready if a case ever reaches a committee
  • Domestic staff managed on the same records as everyone else
Law No. 17 of 2020 · Law No. 18 of 2020

Minimum wage and the end of the NOC

A non-discriminatory national minimum wage — QAR 1,000 basic, plus QAR 500 housing and QAR 300 food when not provided, QAR 1,800 in total — and the removal of the No-Objection Certificate, so workers can change employer freely. Notice periods were rewritten at the same time.

  • Salary structures checked against the minimum wage floor and its allowances
  • Notice periods follow the amended rules — one month up to two years' service, two months beyond
  • Probation notice at one month, not three days
  • Rates held as settings, so a future review is a change of number, not of software
Law No. 22 of 2021 · Ministerial Decision No. 17 of 2021

Health cover and summer heat rules

Employers must fund health insurance for non-Qatari staff in full, with no deduction from salary. Separately, outdoor work is banned from 10:00 to 15:30 between 1 June and 15 September, and all work stops when the heat index passes the limit.

  • Health cover tracked per employee with renewal alerts before expiry
  • Insurance costs never deducted from pay
  • Summer working hours reflected in schedules and attendance rules
Law No. 12 of 2024 · in force 2025

Qatarisation in the private sector

Private employers must prioritise Qatari nationals and children of Qatari mothers in hiring and training, and report on Qatari and non-Qatari headcount.

  • Nationality held on every employee record as reportable data
  • Qatari and non-Qatari headcount available on the dashboard at any moment
  • Workforce reports ready when the ministry asks for them
Law No. 9 of 2026 · the newest reform

The biggest overhaul since 2020

Issued in June 2026, this reform reshapes non-competition clauses, makes worker committees compulsory at larger employers, adds a conciliation step before disputes reach a committee, and moves part-time and freelance work under separate rules. Implementing decisions are still being issued.

  • Non-compete terms up to the new two-year maximum, held on the contract
  • Headcount thresholds visible, so the 100-employee committee rule is never missed
  • Worker classification recorded, ready for the new part-time and freelance rules
  • We track the implementing decisions and update Centra as they land.

Sources: Qatar Ministry of Labour, ILO and Al Meezan. Centra is HR software, not legal advice — we keep the system current and recommend you confirm your own obligations with counsel.

The suite

Fourteen modules. One employee record. Zero re-entry.

Every module reads and writes the same core record, so a contract change flows to payroll, attendance flows to overtime, and a resignation flows to the EOSB settlement — without exporting a single file. Explore the suite by what it manages:

CORE

Employee Base

Qatar ID, passport and visa tracking, sponsor management, dependents, and expiry alerts on every identity document — the record every other module builds on.

QID · VISA · SPONSOR
CONTRACT

Contracts

Limited and unlimited types, probation, renewals and amendments exactly as the law defines them, with automated renewal reminders before anything lapses.

ART. 35–47
DOCS

Documents

Eighteen document types with 30/60/90-day expiry alerts, analytics and a company-wide compliance wizard that shows exactly who is missing what.

18 TYPES · EXPIRY
TIME

Attendance & Hours

Standard and Ramadan working weeks, late and early rules, and overtime at 125%/150% computed straight from check-ins — no spreadsheets in between.

48H / 36H
BIO

Biometric Devices

ZKTeco / eSSL fingerprint and face terminals feeding attendance over ADMS push or SDK pull — from any site, behind any router, with no VPN.

ADMS · PUSH/PULL
LEAVE

Leave

Annual accrual, sick-leave tiers, maternity, Hajj and encashment with calendar views — every request validated against service length before approval.

50 / 30 DAYS
PAY

Payroll & WPS

Qatar salary structures with the basic-wage ratio validated, IBAN management, WPS SIF files for bank submission, and EOSB settlement wizards.

WPS · ART. 54
LOAN

Loans

Ten interest-free loan types with EMI schedules and multi-level approvals. The wage-deduction ceiling is enforced at approval time.

ART. 70 · 15% CAP
GL

Qatar Chart of Accounts

52 Qatar Government expense accounts with budget codes, mapping payroll and HR costs to the ledger the way the ministry expects them.

52 ACCOUNTS
PORTAL

Self-Service Portal

Employees see payslips, request leave and loans, calculate their own EOSB and raise tickets — in Arabic or English, on web and mobile.

WEB · MOBILE
CONDUCT

Penalties

Warnings, deductions and suspensions by offense category, with a full disciplinary history per employee and clean audit trails.

POLICY · AUDIT
DASH

Dashboards

Headcount, attendance and compliance analytics for HR managers — at suite level and per module, ready on install.

LIVE KPIs

See it working

From a fingerprint at the door to a WPS-ready payslip.

No exports, no retyping — watch the record move on its own, then look at the screens your team would actually live in.

Beyond the office

Most of your people never sit at a desk.

Site workers, drivers, nurses, cleaning and security teams — they are the bulk of the headcount and the hardest to reach. Centra reaches them where they already are, so HR stops chasing paper and people stop queueing at your door.

AT THE DOOR

They clock in with a finger

Fingerprint and face terminals feed attendance straight into Centra from every site, including sites on their own internet connection. No paper timesheets, no manual entry, no arguments at the end of the month — the hours that reach payroll are the hours the terminal recorded.

ON THEIR PHONE

They check their own payslip

Staff see payslips and leave balances, request leave, and get approvals on their phone in Arabic or English. The questions that used to fill your inbox answer themselves, and managers approve from wherever they are.

SELF-SERVICE

They handle their own paperwork

Salary certificates, leave history, documents and an end-of-service estimate are available to every employee without asking HR. Your team gets its week back and spends it on people, not printing.

Try it yourself

What does an end of service payment actually come to?

Article 54 sets the floor: three weeks of basic wage for every completed year of service, once an employee passes one year. Move the sliders — this is the same calculation Centra runs on every settlement, with the minimum wage checked alongside it.

End of service benefit
21,000 QAR

Daily basic wage200 QAR
Per completed year4,200 QAR
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Indicative figure based on the statutory minimum. Contracts, unpaid leave and company policy can raise it — Centra applies your own rules on top.

Adopting it

Start with one department. Grow when you're ready.

Replacing an HR system in one weekend is how projects fail. Centra installs module by module on top of one shared employee record, so you can prove it on payroll or attendance first and add the rest at your own pace.

Go live in phases

Begin with the module that hurts most — attendance, or payroll and WPS — and add leave, loans, documents and the portal as your team gets comfortable. Nothing is re-entered when you expand.

Fits what you already run

Centra sits alongside your existing finance and operations systems rather than replacing them, so your accounting, purchasing and current reports keep working exactly as they do today.

Your data stays yours

Runs on your own server, in the cloud or in your office, with the full source code handed over. No per-employee subscription meter, and no hostage situation if you ever change partner.

Everyone sees only their own

Salaries, penalties and documents are visible strictly by role. Line managers see their team, employees see themselves, and HR sees what HR should — enforced by the system, not by trust.

Set up by people who know Qatar

IET configures it against your actual contracts, allowances and shift patterns, trains your team in Arabic and English, and stays reachable afterwards from our Doha office.

Maintained as the law moves

When Qatar amends the labour law — as it did in 2020, 2021, 2024 and again in 2026 — we update Centra and tell you what changed for your company.

Trusted in Qatar

Running HR where Qatar actually works.

From national institutions to construction sites and clinics, Centra runs the HR of organisations across the country — in both of their languages.

Qatar Press Center
Customer · Doha

A national media institution, running its people operations on Centra — Arabic-first, and compliant by default.

Qatar Press Center · المركز القطري للصحافة

— and teams across these sectors

Media
Construction
Healthcare
Logistics
Hospitality
Facilities

Get started

Run HR the way Qatar wrote it.

Licensed as a full suite or module by module. Tell us your headcount and current setup, and we will map Centra onto it.

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includes Arabic + English · documentation · implementation support

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Our Qatar office sits in Palm Tower B, in the heart of Doha's business district — come talk through your HR setup over coffee.

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