Congo-Brazzaville
Employ in Congo-Brazzaville without an entity.
A contract under the Republic of the Congo's 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 Congo-Brazzaville.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
A 40-hour week.
With at least 24 hours of rest in a row each week, in principle on Sunday.
At least 26 working days of annual leave.
For each year of service, taken after twelve months' service.
A new tax on salaries.
The ITS, from pay in 2026, up to 30%.
What employing in Congo-Brazzaville involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
A fixed term and a trial period are each agreed in writing.
- A fixed term runs up to two years with its one renewal, and becomes open-ended if work goes on after it.
- Trial period: up to six months including renewal.
- CNSSSocial security
Pensions, family benefits and work accidents, through the Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale.
- Pensions: 8% from the employer and 4% from the employee, on pay up to XAF 1,200,000 a month.
- Family benefits at 10.035% and work accidents at 2.25%, from the employer alone, on pay up to XAF 600,000 a month.
- CAMUHealth insurance
Universal health insurance, through the Caisse d'assurance maladie universelle.
- 4.55% from the employer and 2.27% from the employee, on gross pay.
- ITSSalary tax
Withheld by the employer each month, under the finance law for 2026.
- Per family share, a flat XAF 1,200 up to XAF 615,000 a year, then 10%, 15% and 20%, and 30% above XAF 5,000,000.
- The employer also pays a single tax on salaries, the TUS.
- Leave
At least 26 working days for each year of service, with more for seniority.
- Sickness: the contract is suspended for up to six months, with full pay for as long as the notice period.
- Maternity leave: 15 weeks, nine of them after the birth, with 50% of pay from the employer and the rest from the CNSS.
- Ending employment
Notice in writing with the reason, its length set by collective agreement or by order.
- During notice, the employee has two paid days a week to look for work.
Hiring in Congo-Brazzaville, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under the Republic of the Congo'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 Congo-Brazzaville
What does it take to employ a foreign national in Congo-Brazzaville?
In the Republic of the Congo, the Agence congolaise pour l'emploi (ACPE) controls the employment of nationals and expatriates. It validates employment contracts and issues work cards. Employing a foreign national who has no residence card, or no employment authorisation for the job actually done, is an offence under the labour code.
What changed in salary tax for 2026?
Who pays maternity leave?
Employing in Congo-Brazzaville, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Congo-Brazzaville: the work card, the contract and what comes off pay, step by step
How you hire in the Republic of the Congo without an entity of your own: the work card step by step, moving someone already in the country, the contract under the labour code, the employee test, what comes off pay, leave, and what changed this year.
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