Benin
Employ in Benin without an entity.
A contract under Benin's labour law, pay in CFA francs, and social security and salary tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Benin.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
In legal tender.
A 40-hour week.
With 24 hours of rest each week, in principle on Sunday.
24 working days of annual leave.
Two working days a month, with more after twenty years.
Dismissal awards capped by law.
Explained below.
What employing in Benin involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Written for a fixed term, part-time work, a trial period and any foreign employee.
- A fixed-term contract can be renewed without limit. From the fourth term, an employer that does not renew it owes an end-of-collaboration indemnity.
- A trial period is a written, paid clause, ended by either side without notice.
- CNSSSocial security
Family and maternity benefits and occupational risk, paid by the employer, and pensions, split with the employee.
- Pensions: 6.4% from the employer and 3.6% from the employee.
- Family benefits: 9% from the employer.
- ITSSalary tax
Withheld by the employer each month, with an employer's tax on salaries alongside it.
- Nothing on the first XOF 60,000 a month, then 10%, 15%, 19% and 30%.
- The employer's tax on salaries: 4% of the same pay.
- Leave
Two working days a month, with more after twenty years' service.
- Sick leave: the contract is suspended for up to six months, with pay rising with service.
- Maternity leave: 14 weeks on full pay, up to half of it refunded to the employer by the CNSS.
- Ending employment
Notice of fifteen days for hourly staff, a month for employees and workers, three months for supervisors and managers.
- For an abusive dismissal, a court awards three to nine months' gross pay.
- Damages for ending a fixed term early are capped at nine months' gross pay.
Hiring in Benin, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under Benin's labour law, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In CFA francs, with social security and salary tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Benin
What does a dismissal cost in Benin?
Under Benin's Loi 2017-05, a court awards three to nine months' gross pay for an abusive dismissal, on the average of the last twelve months. For a dismissal with a legitimate reason but an irregular procedure, it can award up to two months' gross pay, after a year's actual work. Damages for ending a fixed-term contract early are capped at nine months' gross pay. Notice runs from fifteen days to three months.
Can we employ a foreign national?
Can fixed-term contracts be renewed?
Employing in Benin, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Benin: the work permit, the contract and what comes off pay, step by step
How you hire in Benin without an entity of your own: the work permit and the visa on the contract step by step, moving someone already in Benin, who a role is open to, the contract, the employee test, what comes off pay, leave, and ending employment.
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