Shift Management for UAE Non-Desk Workforces
AI-drafted rosters, day / evening / night rotations, shift swaps with a built-in compliance check, and a live coverage dashboard your supervisors actually use. For UAE construction, security, healthcare, and corporate teams.
AI-drafted · Compliance-checked · Mobile-first · UAE Labour Law-aligned · Free up to 10 staff
Most rosters are drafted in Excel. Most should not be.
An Excel roster gets you the grid. It doesn't tell you whether the cover is available, whether the swap breaches a rest rule, whether mandatory prayer break is respected, or whether the 1 AM shift change exceeds the worker's daily limit. Shift management software should do that work for you, and surface the answer before you have to ask the question. AiyaHR drafts rosters from a plain-English description, runs the UAE Labour Law check on every change, and shows the live coverage board your site supervisor needs at the start of every shift.
AI-drafted weekly grid
Describe the shift in plain English. AI proposes the roster. Manager edits or approves with one tap.
Day / evening / night rotations
Rotating patterns, 12-hour posts, split shifts, hybrid schedules — all handled with mandatory rest and overtime caps applied.
UAE Labour Law check built in
Daily limits, mandatory rest between shifts, prayer break, lunch, overtime caps per Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021.
Swaps with compliance check
Staff request swaps from their phone. AI confirms the replacement is available and the swap won't breach rest rules. Manager approves with one tap.
Live coverage dashboard
Who is on each post right now. Uncovered posts and missed check-ins surface to the supervisor immediately.
Multi-site, multi-supervisor
One platform across every operational unit. Central operations sees all; each site lead sees only their own.
Mobile-first for staff
Staff see their roster, request swaps, and check in from their phones. No login portal.
Audit-ready records
Every change to the roster, every swap, every approval — recorded in a tamper-resistant audit log.
Why non-desk scheduling is a different problem
Office scheduling coordinates calendars. Non-desk scheduling covers posts, and an uncovered post is usually a contractual failure rather than an inconvenience.
Coverage is the constraint, not preference
A security post or a ward has to be staffed. The question is not who would like which shift but whether every hour is covered, which is a fundamentally different optimisation.
Swaps have to be checked, not just approved
A swap that leaves someone over a working-hour limit or without adequate rest creates a compliance breach out of a favour. The check has to happen at the point of the swap.
Rotations cross midnight and cross months
Night shifts belong to two calendar days and rotations straddle payroll periods. Systems assuming a shift fits inside one day lose hours at both boundaries.
The schedule reaches people without email
Non-desk staff frequently have no work email address. If the roster only exists somewhere they cannot reach, it will be photographed and shared, and the photograph will go out of date.
From roster draft to a covered shift
Set up the shift pattern
Define the rotation, the rules, and the working-day calendar per site or post.
AI drafts the week
Plain-English description in; weekly grid out. Editable; rule check runs continuously.
Publish the roster
Staff see their schedule on the phone the moment it goes live. Confirmations roll back in.
Swaps + coverage
Swap requests run the compliance check. Coverage gaps surface immediately on the dashboard.
Audit + payroll feed
Hours, overtime, night-shift premiums, and unworked-but-paid time export WPS-ready to payroll.
Built around UAE compliance, not adapted to it
UAE Labour Law working hours (per Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021)
Daily limits, weekly rest, mandatory rest between shifts, prayer break, lunch, and overtime caps configurable per site, aligned with Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021.
Audit-ready change log
Every roster change, swap approval, and rule override is recorded with who, when, and why. Retained for the legal period.
No silent overrides
Hard rule breaches require explicit override by an authorised role; soft breaches are recorded but allowed.
Multi-site data isolation
Per-tenant separation. Each site lead sees only their own roster and staff.
Frequently asked questions
Does the AI publish rosters on its own?▾
How does it handle Ramadan and reduced working hours?▾
Can it handle 12-hour security shifts and clinical 24×7 rotations?▾
What about prayer breaks?▾
Is there a free tier?▾
See AI shift drafting on your roster
20-minute demo. Tell us the shift in plain English; we will show the grid AI drafts and how the compliance check works in practice.