Togo
Employ in Togo without an entity.
A contract under Togo's 2021 labour code, pay in CFA francs, and social security, health insurance and income tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Togo.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
In legal tender.
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.
Universal health insurance.
10% of pay, 5% from the employer and 5% from the employee.
What employing in Togo involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
A written contract is in French. Fixed-term, part-time and project contracts are written.
- A fixed term is for a precise, temporary task: up to two years at first, and four with renewals.
- Trial period: from eight days to six months by category, in writing.
- CNSSSocial security
Pensions, family and maternity benefits and work accidents, paid by the 15th of the next month.
- 17.5% from the employer and 4% from the employee.
- AMUHealth insurance
Universal health insurance, run by the CNSS for employees under the Code du travail.
- 10% of pay: 5% from the employer and 5% from the employee.
- Contributions have been due since 1 January 2024.
- IRPPIncome tax
Withheld by the employer each month, on annual bands from 0% to 35%.
- Leave
Two and a half days a month, after twelve months' service.
- Sick leave: half pay from the employer, for up to 30 days, two months or four months by service.
- Maternity leave: 14 weeks, on her full salary from the CNSS.
- Ending employment
Notice of at least fifteen days for hourly staff, a month for workers and employees, three months for supervisors and managers.
- Dismissal payment, after a year: 35% of a month's pay for each of the first five years, 40% for the next five, then 45%.
- For an abusive dismissal, a court awards 3 to 24 months' gross pay.
Hiring in Togo, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under Togo's labour code, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In CFA francs, with social security, health insurance and income tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Togo
What does an employer pay into social security in Togo?
Employers in Togo pay 17.5% of pay to the CNSS: 12.5% for pensions, 3% for family and maternity benefits and 2% for work accidents. Employees pay 4% for pensions. Universal health insurance, which the CNSS runs for employees, adds 10% of pay: 5% from the employer and 5% from the employee. It has been due since 1 January 2024.
Can we employ a foreign national?
Is there paternity leave?
Employing in Togo, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Togo: the contract visa, the contract and a salary worked through, step by step
How you hire in Togo without an entity of your own: the hiring authorisation and the visa on the contract step by step, moving someone already in Togo, who a role is open to, the contract, the employee test, what a salary costs and pays, leave, and ending employment.
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