Guinea-Bissau
Employ in Guinea-Bissau without an entity.
A contract under Guinea-Bissau'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 Guinea-Bissau.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
Up to 45 hours a week.
Eight hours a day, with a day of rest, in principle Sunday.
Social security at 22% of pay.
14% from the employer and 8% from the employee.
A holiday subsidy.
At least a month's base salary.
What employing in Guinea-Bissau involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Written, except for a task of 30 days or less. A fixed-term contract states its reason and is deposited with the Labour Inspectorate.
- As a rule, a fixed term covers a temporary need, for up to six years with at most two renewals, then once more for two to four years.
- Trial period: up to three months, or six for senior staff.
- INSSSocial security
The national social security institute, paid by the 15th of the next month.
- 14% from the employer and 8% from the employee.
- Income tax
The Imposto Profissional, withheld by the employer each month.
- 1% on the first XOF 41,667 a month, rising in bands to 20% above XOF 1,500,000.
- Leave
22 working days a year in principle, with a holiday subsidy of at least a month's base salary.
- Sickness: a justified absence, covered by the INSS sickness subsidy.
- Maternity leave: 90 days. Paternity leave: 15 days.
- Ending employment
A dismissal needs just cause, through a disciplinary process, or a job's elimination, unsuitability or a collective dismissal.
- A collective dismissal needs 90 days' notice.
- Where the employer ends a fixed term at its expiry, the employee receives three days' base pay for each month of a contract of up to six months, or two days' for a longer one.
Hiring in Guinea-Bissau, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under Guinea-Bissau'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 Guinea-Bissau
What does it take to employ a foreign national in Guinea-Bissau?
In Guinea-Bissau, a foreign national may be employed where no qualified national is available. The contract is written and names the person's permit to reside or stay. The General Labour Inspectorate approves it, and it is deposited with the Directorate-General of Labour before work starts. The deposit is deemed granted after 30 days without a decision. A national of a country that treats Guinea-Bissau's citizens equally in taking up work need only be notified.
Is there a holiday subsidy?
How long can a fixed-term contract run?
Employing in Guinea-Bissau, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Guinea-Bissau: the contract approval, the contract and what comes off pay, step by step
How you hire in Guinea-Bissau without an entity of your own: the approval of a foreign national's contract step by step, moving someone already in Guinea-Bissau, the contract, the employee test, what comes off pay, leave, and ending employment.
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