Burkina Faso
Employ in Burkina Faso without an entity.
A contract under Burkina Faso's 2026 Labour Code, pay in CFA francs, and social security, health insurance and salary tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Burkina Faso.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
A 40-hour week.
With at least 24 hours of rest each week, in principle on Sunday.
A new Labour Code.
Loi 013-2026/ALP, promulgated in May 2026, replaces the 2008 code from its entry into force.
30 days of annual leave.
Two and a half calendar days a month.
What employing in Burkina Faso involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Written or oral, but a fixed term and a trial period are always in writing.
- A fixed term runs up to two years, with at most two renewals.
- At its term, an end-of-contract indemnity is owed.
- Trial period: 8 days for hourly or daily staff, a month for other staff and 3 months for managers, supervisors and technicians, renewable once.
- CNSSSocial security
Contributions to the national social security fund.
- AMUHealth insurance
Universal health insurance, its contribution shared between employer and employee.
- Benefits have been paid since 1 February 2026.
- IUTSSalary tax
Withheld by the employer each month, on bands from 0% on the first XOF 30,000 to 25% above XOF 250,000, with reductions for family.
- The employer also pays TPA, a tax of 3% on pay.
- Leave
Two and a half calendar days for each month of service, with more after twenty years.
- Sickness: the contract is suspended for up to a year, with pay rising with service, from a month on full pay and a month on half pay.
- Maternity leave: 14 weeks, paid by the social security fund up to its ceiling, with the employer paying the rest.
- Ending employment
Notice in writing with the reason: 8 days, a month or 3 months, on the same scale as the trial period.
- During notice, the employee has two paid days a week to look for work.
- For an abusive dismissal, a court can order reinstatement or, where reinstatement is refused, damages of up to 24 months' pay.
Hiring in Burkina Faso, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under Burkina Faso's Labour Code, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In CFA francs, with social security, health insurance and salary tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Burkina Faso
What does it take to employ a foreign national in Burkina Faso?
Under Burkina Faso's 2026 Labour Code, hiring a foreign national who is not a permanent resident needs prior authorisation from the public employment service. The employee needs a work permit. Neither applies where a treaty on free movement or reciprocity covers the person. The labour inspectorate gives its visa on the contract before work starts. The visa is deemed granted after 15 days. Without it, the contract is void.
Which labour law applies?
Is there a minimum wage?
Employing in Burkina Faso, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Burkina Faso: the work permit, the contract and what comes off pay, step by step
How you hire in Burkina Faso without an entity of your own: the work permit and the visa on the contract step by step, moving someone already in Burkina Faso, who a role is open to, the contract, the employee test, what comes off pay each month, leave, and what changed this year.
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