Schedule terminal shifts without risking the midday ban.
Klacks immediately flags loading and unloading shifts at uncovered container terminals that fall within the statutory midday work ban from 15 June to 15 September, 12:30 to 15:00 — helping you avoid fines of up to AED 50,000. Installed on your premises, so staff data is stored on your own servers.
Note on the sample data: All names, places (for example Winterthur), addresses and figures in these recordings are fictitious demo data with a Swiss background, written in Latin script. They only illustrate the product – you do not need to know or be able to read them. In your own installation you enter your own data, and the interface is multilingual.
The midday work ban at uncovered terminals
The ban on outdoor work
From 15 June to 15 September, work in direct sunlight is banned every day from 12:30 to 15:00 — this also applies to loading and unloading staff at uncovered container terminals and loading yards (MOHRE ministerial decision).
Fines of up to AED 50,000 per breach
Breaches cost AED 5,000 per affected employee, capped at AED 50,000 — the same structure as the general midday work ban.
Distinguishing covered from uncovered areas
Only work in direct sunlight is affected — whether a loading area counts as covered or uncovered must be clearly documented for every shift.
Your finished shift plan in three steps
Install
Klacks is installed on your own infrastructure — via Docker; allow about half an hour for the first start.
Adjust rules
Public holidays and rest periods come preconfigured for your country, surcharges where defined for your country — and you can adjust them anytime.
Plan automatically
Klacks builds shift plans, flags conflicts and optimizes routes — with an AI assistant if you want.
How Klacks takes the load off logistics operators in the UAE
From the automatic block to covered/uncovered declarations — everything works together.
The midday window for outdoor shifts made visible
Klacks can be set up so that open-air terminal and loading-yard shifts within the banned window from 15 June to 15 September, 12:30 to 15:00, stand out immediately — stored as a blocked time, not discovered after the fact.
Covered or uncovered, clearly distinguishable
Terminal areas can be set up in Klacks as separate sites or groups to distinguish covered from uncovered areas — only the affected areas stand out during the banned window.
The AED 50,000 fine risk reduced
Because the banned window for outdoor areas is stored visibly in Klacks and stands out during scheduling, the risk of the AED 5,000 fine per employee is significantly reduced.
Routes & deliveries automatically optimised
Klacks automatically aligns deliveries, loading times and staff deployment at the terminal.
Installed on your premises: data on your servers
Klacks runs on your own infrastructure — your terminal team's personal data is stored on your servers; the AI model can be run locally on request.
Klacksy understands your request
"Move the loading shift at Terminal 2 out of the midday window" is all it takes — Klacksy starts the planning, Klacks observes the blocked times you've stored.
What Klacks can do — in real recordings
Short videos from the running app, sorted by topic. Choose a chapter; only the video of the open chapter ever plays.
Note on the sample data: All names, places (for example Winterthur), addresses and figures in these recordings are fictitious demo data with a Swiss background, written in Latin script. They only illustrate the product – you do not need to know or be able to read them. In your own installation you enter your own data, and the interface is multilingual.
- Klacksy helps you get it right in every one of these cases: describe your rule in the chat in your own words, for example “Sundays earn a 50% surcharge.” — Klacksy asks follow-up questions, shows a preview and only saves once you confirm.
- Klacksy also creates scenarios and starts planning inside them — tell it in the chat, for example: “Plan Winterthur from November 2 to 8.”
- Klacksy, the built-in AI assistant, can also do all of this for you on request — for example, tell it in the chat: “Add expenses of 24.50 for Mia on October 6.”
A calendar that keeps pace with the moon
In the United Arab Emirates, all official public holidays are decreed centrally by the UAE Cabinet — uniformly for all seven emirates, with no cantonal or municipal variation like in Europe. The real challenge lies elsewhere: holidays whose exact date is only confirmed at short notice, and businesses that plan across several Gulf states.
- Uniform nationwide, confirmed at short noticeEvery holiday applies equally across all emirates — but religious dates such as Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha are confirmed only by a national moon-sighting committee, often just days in advance. New dates can be added to Klacks the moment they're announced.
- Mix calendarsA Dubai business with branches in Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Oman needs several country calendars running at once — moon sightings occasionally differ by a day between Gulf states, and national days fall on different dates to begin with.
- Binding or purely informationalFor each calendar, you decide whether a holiday affects hours & premiums — or simply appears as a reminder.
It all comes down to the settings
Klacks offers countless ways to calculate rules and hour credits for nights, weekends, public holidays and overtime — exactly the way your contracts and company agreements require.
- Nights and weekends You set the night window and the surcharge rates yourself, and choose up to three weekend days — as a multiplier that is added to the hours worked as a time credit in hours.
- Public holidays and overtime A separate public-holiday rate, and overtime per day or per week in up to three tiers. When several surcharges fall on the same hour, the highest one applies — or all of them add up.
- Your own calculation with a macro If that is not enough, a macro does the maths: a short script using weekday, time of day, public holidays and contract values — with conditions, loops and functions of your own.
- Scheduling rules Rest periods, maximum daily and weekly hours, consecutive working days, free Sundays or hour caps per period — each one as a warning or, in automatic planning, as a block.
Rule violations: Klacks warns you instantly
Klacks flags time collisions, rest periods that are too short, too many consecutive working days and work on holidays right as you plan — as an error or warning in the error list.
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The best route — automatically
From your service addresses, Klacks works out the most sensible order and shows the finished route on the map. All you choose is the mode of transport.
- 1Capture addresses Every service location has an address on file — Klacks knows the way.
- 2Optimize the order Klacks works out the shortest sensible sequence — detours and empty runs are reduced.
- 3Show it on the map The finished route appears on the map — by car, bike, or on foot.
Stylized example: Klacks connects the service locations into the shortest route.
The midday ban at the terminal, at a glance
Once the banned window from 15 June to 15 September, 12:30 to 15:00, is stored as a blocked time for an uncovered terminal area, Klacks immediately flags a loading shift that falls within it — moved to the morning or late afternoon, it can then be scheduled directly.
See Klacks in your logistics operation
Try the Playground to see how Klacks makes the midday work ban visible, schedules terminal shifts and coordinates deliveries — or install it directly on your own premises. No license fees, with no registration required.
Klacks is open source under the AGPL-3.0. Host it yourself, keep your data with you, pay no license fees — you stay in full control.