Chad
Employ in Chad without an entity.
A contract under Chad's labour code, pay in CFA francs, and social security and income tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Chad.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
Contracts approved by ONAPE.
The national employment office.
Notice of up to two months.
Rising with service.
Severance after two years.
Explained below.
What employing in Chad involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
A fixed-term contract is written, and runs up to two years, renewable once.
- Trial period: up to six months for managers, three for staff, technicians and supervisors, and a month for others, renewal included.
- A contract with a foreign worker, an open-ended contract and a fixed term of more than six months carry ONAPE's visa before work starts.
- CNPSSocial security
The Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance Sociale, the national social security fund.
- Income tax
On pay, handled each month.
- Working time
A 39-hour week, with at least 24 hours of rest each week, in principle on Sunday.
- Overtime is paid at a higher rate that a decree sets.
- With overtime, work runs to no more than 11 hours a day and 54 a week.
- Leave
Two working days of paid leave for each month of work.
- Sickness: the contract is suspended for at least the first six months, with full pay for as long as the notice period.
- Maternity
An employee cannot be dismissed for pregnancy.
- Maternity leave: 14 weeks, from six weeks before the expected birth to eight weeks after it.
- Ending employment
Notice of fifteen days in the first year, a month from one year, and two months from three years.
- Severance, after two years: 25% of a month's pay for each of the first five years, 30% for the next five, then 35%.
Hiring in Chad, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under Chad's labour code, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In CFA francs, with social security and income tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Chad
What does ending employment cost in Chad?
In Chad, notice is fifteen days in the first year of service, a month from one year and two months from three years. After two years' service, the dismissal indemnity is 25% of average gross monthly pay for each of the first five years, 30% for years six to ten, and 35% from year eleven.
Can we employ a foreign national?
How long can a fixed-term contract run?
Employing in Chad, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Chad: the contract visa, the contract and ending employment, step by step
How you hire in Chad without an entity of your own: the employment office's authorisation and visa for a foreign national step by step, moving someone already in Chad, the contract under the Labour Code, the employee test, pay, leave, and ending employment.
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