Mali
Employ in Mali without an entity.
A contract under Mali's labour code, pay in CFA francs, and social security, health insurance and taxes on pay handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Mali.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
A 40-hour week.
With 24 hours of rest each week, in principle on Sunday.
30 days of annual leave.
Two and a half days a month, with more after fifteen years.
Employer taxes on pay.
Explained below.
What employing in Mali involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Written for a fixed term, a trial period, part-time work and any foreign employee.
- A fixed term runs up to two years, with at most two renewals.
- Where no open-ended contract follows, an end-of-contract indemnity is owed.
- Trial period: in writing, up to 6 months including renewal.
- Social security and health insurance
Contributions to the INPS and the compulsory health insurance scheme, AMO, from employer and employee.
- AMO: 3.5% from the employer and 3.06% from the employee.
- Employer taxes on pay
The flat employer contribution, the vocational training tax, the housing tax and the youth employment tax, on gross pay.
- ITSIncome tax
Withheld by the employer each month, with a reduction for family.
- Leave
Two and a half days a month, 30 days a year, rest days included.
- Sick leave: the contract is suspended for up to 6 months, with full pay for the notice period.
- Maternity leave: 14 weeks, 6 before the birth and 8 after.
- Ending employment
Notice of 8 days for daily or weekly staff, a month for monthly staff, 2 months for supervisors and 3 for managers.
- Severance, after a year: 20% of a month's pay for each of the first five years, 25% for the next five, then 30%.
- An economic dismissal adds a month's gross pay.
Hiring in Mali, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under Mali's labour code, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In CFA francs, with social security, health insurance and taxes on pay handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Mali
What does ending employment cost in Mali?
In Mali, notice runs from 8 days for daily or weekly paid staff to 3 months for managers. The employer tells the labour inspector of a planned dismissal, with the reason. After a year's service, severance is 20% of average monthly pay for each of the first five years, 25% for years six to ten, and 30% after that. An economic dismissal adds a month's gross pay.
Can we employ a foreign national?
How long can a fixed-term contract run?
Employing in Mali, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Mali: the work permit, the contract and what comes off pay, step by step
How you hire in Mali without an entity of your own: the work permit and the visa on the contract step by step, moving someone already in Mali, 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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