How Fariq works
A simple guide for HR, for managers and for every employee.
Fariq keeps the people side of the company in one place: who works here, when they work, when they are on leave, which papers must be renewed and how the salary is calculated.
1. What is Fariq?
Fariq is an HR system. It remembers everything about your employees: the name, the department, the job, the salary, the working time and the papers.
It also does the daily work: attendance, leave requests, document expiry and the monthly payroll.
2. Who uses Fariq?
There are four kinds of users:
- Administrator — sets up everything: users, departments, positions, leave types, holidays and settings.
- HR officer — the daily HR work: employees, attendance, leave, documents and payroll.
- Manager — sees the team, approves the leave of the team and can look at the attendance.
- Employee — self-service: own attendance, own leave request, own payslips.
3. How do I sign in?
- Open the address of Fariq in your browser.
- Write your username or your email, and your password.
- Click “Sign in”.
Your account is made by HR or the administrator.
4. How do I add a new employee?
- Click “Employees” and then “New employee”.
- Write the personal data: name, phone, email, nationality, address and the emergency contact.
- Choose the department, the position and the manager.
- Write the joining date and the contract type. For a limited contract, write the end date.
- Write the salary: basic salary and the allowances (housing, transport, other).
- Write the bank and the IBAN if the salary is paid by bank transfer.
- Click “Create employee”.
5. Attendance — every day
“Attendance” has two views: one day for the whole company, and one month for one employee.
- Open “Attendance”. Choose the day (today is the default).
- Write the check-in and check-out time for each person, or choose a status: present, remote, absent, sick, leave.
- Press “Save” in the row. Fariq calculates the worked time, the late minutes and the overtime by itself.
- Use “Mark everybody present” to fill a normal day in one click, then correct the exceptions.
6. Late and overtime
Fariq compares the check-in time with the working time in the settings (for example 09:00) and gives a small grace period.
- Late minutes = check-in later than the working start + grace.
- Overtime = worked time longer than the standard hours of the day.
- The monthly timesheet shows the totals per employee: days present, days late, absent days, leave days, late time and overtime.
7. Leave — request and approval
For the employee:
- Open “My leave” and press “Request leave”.
- Choose the leave type, the first day, the last day and write a reason.
- Press “Send”. Fariq shows how many days will remain.
For the manager or HR:
- Open “Leave requests”. The requests that wait are on the top.
- Read the dates and the balance of the employee.
- Press “Approve” or “Reject” and write a comment if you want.
8. Who is off?
“Who is off” shows all approved leave in a period. Use it before you plan a meeting or a deadline.
- See who is off today and who comes back soon.
- See the holidays of the year — they are in the settings under “Holidays”.
9. Documents and expiry dates
Every employee has documents: passport, visa, Emirates ID, labour card, health insurance, certificates.
- Open the employee and the tab “Documents”.
- Choose the document type, write the number and the expiry date, and attach the file (PDF or photo, max 5 MB).
- Fariq warns HR some days before the expiry date. The number of days is a setting.
10. Payroll — every month
- Open “Payroll” and choose the month. Press “Start a payroll run”.
- Fariq builds one payslip per employee: basic salary, allowances, overtime, minus absence and unpaid leave.
- Check the numbers. You can add another deduction with a reason (for example a loan).
- Press “Approve payroll” when everything is correct. After that the run cannot be changed.
- Pay the salaries and press “Mark as paid”.
- Download the bank file (CSV) to send the payments to the bank.
Every employee can open their own payslips in “My payslips”.
11. End of service benefit (gratuity)
When an employee leaves the company, Fariq calculates the end of service benefit.
- For the first five years: 21 days of wage for every year.
- After five years: 30 days of wage for every year.
- Partly years are counted pro-rata (for example 3 years and 6 months).
You see the amount on the employee page. The rules and the basis (basic salary or full salary) are in the settings.
12. What does the bell mean?
Fariq looks at the dates every day and warns the right people:
- A document of an employee ends soon.
- A work contract or the probation time ends soon.
- Leave requests wait for an approval.
- Somebody has no attendance recorded for yesterday.
13. Reports
“Reports” answers the questions of the management:
- How many employees do we have, in which department and with which contract?
- How is the attendance this month? Who is often late?
- How much leave is left for everybody?
- How much does the payroll cost every month and per department?
- Which documents end soon?
- Who joined and who left in this period?
With “Export CSV” you can open the numbers in Excel.
14. Legal and good practice
- Write only the data you really need. Personal data is sensitive.
- Give every person only the access they need (employee, manager, HR).
- Keep the documents with the correct expiry dates.
- Write the real attendance and the real leave — the salary depends on it.
- Delete install.php from the server after the installation.
15. The life of an employee in Fariq
The person is hired: HR creates the record and the documents. Every day the attendance is written. Leave is requested and approved. Every month the payroll runs. When the person leaves, Fariq calculates the end of service benefit.
16. Small dictionary
- Employee — a person who works in the company.
- Department — a part of the company, for example Finance.
- Position — the job of the person, for example Accountant.
- Attendance — the record of the working day (check-in, check-out).
- Late — the person came after the working start.
- Overtime — the person worked more than the normal hours.
- Leave balance — the days that are still free for the person.
- Document expiry — the last day of a passport, visa or ID.
- Payroll run — the calculation of all salaries of one month.
- Payslip — the paper of one person for one month.
- Gratuity — the money for the years of service when somebody leaves.
- Probation — the test time at the beginning of a contract.
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