Namibia
Employ in Namibia without an entity.
A contract under Namibia's Labour Act, pay in Namibia dollars, and social security, income tax and the training levy handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Namibia.
Paid in Namibia dollars, every month.
With a written pay statement each time.
A 45-hour week.
With 36 hours of rest in a row each week.
Four weeks of annual leave.
Consecutive, each year.
Income tax up to 37%.
Withheld each month.
What employing in Namibia involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Employees are presumed permanent unless the employer can justify a fixed term. Each payment comes with a written pay statement.
- SSCSocial security
The Social Security Commission's fund for maternity, sick leave and death benefits, from employer and employee alike.
- 0.9% from the employer and 0.9% from the employee, on a basic wage up to NAD 12,500 a month.
- The Commission also runs the accident fund for injury at work, paid for by an annual assessment on employers.
- PAYEIncome tax
Withheld by the employer each month.
- Nothing up to NAD 100,000 a year, then 18%, rising through 25%, 28%, 30% and 32% to 37% above NAD 1,550,000.
- VETTraining levy
1% of the year's total pay, for employers paying NAD 1,000,000 or more a year.
- Leave
Four consecutive weeks of annual leave a year.
- Sick leave: 30 working days in each 36 months on a five-day week.
- Maternity leave: 12 weeks, after six months' service.
- Compassionate leave: five days a year.
- Ending employment
Notice of a day in the first four weeks, a week to a year, then a month, in writing.
- Severance, where the Act gives it: at least a week's remuneration for each year of service, after twelve months.
- A dismissal is presumed unfair until the employer shows otherwise.
Hiring in Namibia, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in Namibia dollars.
The contract is put in place
Under Namibia's Labour Act, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In Namibia dollars, with social security, income tax and the training levy handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Namibia
What notice and severance apply in Namibia?
Under Namibia's Labour Act, notice is a day in the first four weeks of service, a week up to a year, and a month after that. Severance is at least a week's remuneration for each year of service, once an employee has served twelve months. It is owed on a dismissal, other than a fair one for misconduct or poor performance, on a death in service, and on resigning or retiring at 65.
Can we employ a foreign national?
Is there a training levy?
Employing in Namibia, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Namibia: the employment permit, the contract and what comes off pay, step by step
How you hire in Namibia without an entity of your own: the employment permit step by step, moving someone already in Namibia, the contract, the employee test, what comes off pay each month, leave, and what changes this year and next.
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