South Sudan
Employ in South Sudan without an entity.
A contract under South Sudan's Labour Act, pay in pounds, and income tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in South Sudan.
Paid in pounds, every month.
All staff in the same legal tender, whatever their nationality.
A 40-hour week.
Eight hours a day, with 24 hours of rest each week.
21 working days of annual leave.
After a year's service, rising to 25 after three years and 30 after fifteen.
Income tax up to 20%.
Withheld each month.
What employing in South Sudan involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Written or spoken. An employee on a spoken contract gets the terms in a written statement, or in a notice at the workplace.
- A fixed-term contract that runs on past its end is renewed on the same terms. It becomes open-ended after two years in all.
- Trial period: up to 3 months.
- Social insurance
A national social insurance fund registers employers and employees, collects contributions, and pays pensions and compensation.
- Income tax
Withheld by the employer each month, on bands that reach 20%.
- Leave
21 working days a year, 25 after three years' service and 30 after fifteen.
- Sick leave: 12 days a year on full pay.
- Maternity leave: 90 days on full pay.
- Paternity leave: 2 weeks on full pay.
- Ending employment
Notice rises with service: a week in the first six months, two weeks to a year, then a month.
- Gratuity, after a year's service: a month's last gross salary for each year, more after ten and fifteen years, capped at 36 months.
- Work permits and local staff
A foreign employee needs a work permit from the Ministry of Labour, valid for a year from the date it is issued.
- A foreign employer hires a foreigner only where the skills are not available locally.
- A foreign employer's contract with a foreigner needs the Labour Commissioner's approval.
- A foreign employer gives nationals at least 80% of posts, at each level of management.
- Driving, office support and other manual work are reserved for nationals.
Hiring in South Sudan, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in pounds.
The contract is put in place
Under South Sudan's Labour Act, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In pounds, with income tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in South Sudan
What does it take to employ a foreign national in South Sudan?
A foreign national in South Sudan needs a work permit from the Ministry of Labour, valid for a year from issue. A foreign employer hires them only where the qualifications, skills and experience are not available locally. The office of the Labour Commissioner approves that employment contract. A foreign employer also gives South Sudanese nationals at least 80% of posts, at each level of management. Some jobs, such as driving and office support, are reserved for nationals.
Can salaries be paid in dollars?
What is the gratuity?
Employing in South Sudan, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in South Sudan: the work permit, the contract and ending employment, step by step
How you hire in South Sudan without an entity of your own: the work permit step by step, moving someone already there, the jobs open to a non-national, the contract, the employee test, leave, and ending employment.
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