# SA Payroll & Labour Rules (remote · aiagenttools.co.za)

SA payroll and labour rules: minimum wage, BCEA overtime, UIF, SDL, public holidays, leave

- Trust score: 59/100 (low)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `aiagenttools.co.za`: 59/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-aiagenttools-payroll/payroll-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-aiagenttools-payroll/payroll-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 46/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 2 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 66/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 915 tokens (~130/item across 7 items; 7 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 20/100
  - Stability observed for 6 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 91/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 74% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 75/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - 0 of 1 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation; "overtime_and_premium_pay" implies "pay" and declares readOnlyHint instead, contradicting what its own name says it does.
  - An AI judge read all 8 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the SA Payroll & Labour Rules MCP server?

SA Payroll & Labour Rules is a hosted endpoint at https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http za-co-aiagenttools-payroll 'https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "za-co-aiagenttools-payroll": {
      "url": "https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "za-co-aiagenttools-payroll": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.za-co-aiagenttools-payroll]
url = "https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "za-co-aiagenttools-payroll": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add za-co-aiagenttools-payroll --url 'https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  za-co-aiagenttools-payroll:
    url: "https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "za-co-aiagenttools-payroll": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add za-co-aiagenttools-payroll -t streamable-http -u 'https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "za-co-aiagenttools-payroll": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 59, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 58, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 57, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 56, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-30 (score 56)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `minimum_wage_check` (~132 tokens)

Check pay against the national minimum wage

Checks whether an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly wage meets South Africa's National Minimum Wage on a given date (farm and domestic workers included). Returns the legal minimum, the shortfall and monthly equivalents.

Input parameters:

- `amount` (number, required): Wage in rand
- `date` (string): YYYY-MM-DD, default today
- `hours_per_day` (number): Ordinary hours per day (needed for day). Default 9
- `hours_per_week` (number): Ordinary hours per week (needed for week/month). Default 45
- `period` (string, required)
- `worker_type` (string)

### `overtime_and_premium_pay` (~247 tokens)

Calculate overtime, Sunday and public holiday pay

Calculates BCEA pay for a pay period: ordinary hours, weekday/Saturday overtime (1.5x), Sunday work (1.5x if ordinarily worked, else 2x), and public holiday work (s18). Flags breaches of overtime limits and checks the BCEA earnings threshold (employees above it have no statutory overtime entitlement).

Input parameters:

- `annual_earnings` (number): Regular annual earnings, to test the BCEA threshold (optional)
- `date` (string): YYYY-MM-DD, default today
- `hourly_rate` (number, required): Ordinary hourly rate in rand
- `ordinarily_works_sunday` (boolean)
- `ordinary_daily_hours` (number): Hours in a normal shift, for public holiday minimum. Default 9
- `ordinary_hours` (number, required): Ordinary hours worked in the period
- `overtime_hours` (number): Weekday/Saturday overtime hours
- `public_holiday_hours` (number)
- `public_holiday_is_ordinary_workday` (boolean)
- `sunday_hours` (number)
- `weeks_in_period` (number): Weeks covered, used to check the 10h/week overtime cap. Default 1

### `uif_sdl_contributions` (~112 tokens)

Calculate UIF and SDL

Calculates monthly UIF (1% employee + 1% employer, capped at the R17,712 ceiling) for one or more employees, and the employer's Skills Development Levy (1% of payroll, exempt if annual payroll is under R500,000).

Input parameters:

- `annual_payroll_estimate` (number): Employer's total annual payroll, for the SDL exemption test. Default: monthly total x 12
- `monthly_remuneration` (array, required): Gross monthly remuneration per employee, in rand

### `public_holidays` (~49 tokens)

List South African public holidays

Lists South African public holidays for a year, including Sunday-to-Monday substitutions and once-off declared holidays (e.g. election days).

Input parameters:

- `year` (integer, required): e.g. 2026

### `business_days_between` (~75 tokens)

Count working days between dates

Counts South African working days between two dates (inclusive), excluding weekends and public holidays. Optionally counts Saturdays as working days. Useful for notice periods, payment terms and delivery dates.

Input parameters:

- `end` (string, required): YYYY-MM-DD
- `include_saturdays` (boolean)
- `start` (string, required): YYYY-MM-DD

### `leave_and_termination` (~123 tokens)

Leave entitlements, notice and severance

Returns BCEA minimum leave (annual, sick, family responsibility), notice period and retrenchment severance pay for an employee, given days worked per week, start date and pay.

Input parameters:

- `as_at` (string): Date to evaluate, default today
- `days_per_week` (number, required): Days worked per week, e.g. 5 or 6
- `start_date` (string, required): Employment start, YYYY-MM-DD
- `weekly_wage` (number): Ordinary weekly wage in rand (for severance)
- `worker_type` (string)

### `unmet_request` (~124 tokens)

Tell us what data you couldn't find

Free to call. If you needed South African data that none of these tools provide (a cost, rate, rule, price or place we don't cover), describe it here in one sentence. We review these every week and build the most-requested data first.

Input parameters:

- `context` (string): Optional: the kind of task it was for, e.g. 'renovation quote' or 'payroll run'.
- `need` (string, required): What information you were looking for, in one sentence.
- `region` (string): Optional: province or town, if it matters.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-aiagenttools-payroll/payroll-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 59
- 2026-11-04: 58
- 2026-11-03: 58
- 2026-11-02: 57
- 2026-11-01: 57
- 2026-10-31: 56
- 2026-10-30: 56

## Common questions

### What is the SA Payroll & Labour Rules MCP server?

SA Payroll & Labour Rules is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as za.co.aiagenttools/payroll. SA payroll and labour rules: minimum wage, BCEA overtime, UIF, SDL, public holidays, leave. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp).

### Is the SA Payroll & Labour Rules MCP server safe to use?

SA Payroll & Labour Rules scores 59 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the SA Payroll & Labour Rules MCP server expose?

SA Payroll & Labour Rules exposes 7 tools: minimum_wage_check, overtime_and_premium_pay, uif_sdl_contributions, public_holidays, business_days_between, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 862 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the SA Payroll & Labour Rules MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to SA Payroll & Labour Rules without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the SA Payroll & Labour Rules MCP server still maintained?

SA Payroll & Labour Rules is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the SA Payroll & Labour Rules MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 11 checks on SA Payroll & Labour Rules, covering TLS certificate, HSTS header, DNSSEC, Transport and 7 more. 2 items could not be completed, a gap on our side rather than a finding about SA Payroll & Labour Rules: Authorization and HTTPS. Supply Chain Security and Provenance & Transparency do not apply to a hosted endpoint, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://aiagenttools.co.za/payroll/mcp
- Website: https://aiagenttools.co.za/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-aiagenttools-payroll/payroll-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-aiagenttools-payroll/payroll-mcp/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-aiagenttools-payroll/payroll-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/za-co-aiagenttools-payroll/payroll-mcp