Tunisia
Employ in Tunisia without an entity.
A contract under Tunisia's Labour Code, pay in dinars, and social security and income tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Tunisia.
Paid in dinars, every month.
In Tunisian legal tender.
Up to 48 hours a week.
With 24 consecutive hours of rest each week.
Social security at 26.75% of pay.
17.07% from the employer and 9.68% from the employee.
Open-ended contracts by default.
Under the 2025 reform of the Labour Code.
What employing in Tunisia involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
An open-ended contract is the rule. A fixed term is allowed only in the exceptional cases the law lists, such as an unusual rise in work, standing in for an absent employee or seasonal work, and is written.
- Trial period: on an open-ended contract only, up to 6 months, renewable once.
- A foreign employee's contract is approved by the employment ministry, for up to a year, renewable once.
- CNSSSocial security
Social security on all pay, declared and paid each quarter, and the fund for job loss for economic reasons.
- 17.07% from the employer and 9.68% from the employee, each including 0.5% for the job-loss fund.
- Work accidents: 0.4% to 4% by sector, from the employer.
- IRPPIncome tax
Personal income tax, on a progressive annual scale.
- Nothing on the first TND 5,000 a year, then rising through 15%, 25%, 30%, 33%, 36% and 38% to 40% above TND 70,000.
- Leave
A day of annual leave for each month worked, up to 15 days a year.
- Maternity leave: 3 months.
- Paternity leave: 7 days on full pay.
- Ending employment
A month's notice, by registered letter.
- Severance: a day's pay for each month of service, up to 3 months' pay, except for serious misconduct.
- An unfair dismissal costs 1 to 2 months' pay for each year of service, up to 3 years' pay.
Hiring in Tunisia, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in dinars.
The contract is put in place
Under Tunisia's Labour Code, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In dinars, with social security and income tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Tunisia
What does it take to employ a foreign national in Tunisia?
In Tunisia, a foreign employee's contract carries the visa of the Ministry of Employment. It runs for up to a year and can be renewed once. A foreign national is hired only where the skills are not available among Tunisian nationals in that specialty. The residence card states that the holder may work as an employee.
What changed in 2025?
Which day is the weekly rest day?
Employing in Tunisia, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Tunisia: the contract visa, residence and the contract, step by step
How you hire in Tunisia without an entity of your own: the contract visa and residence step by step, moving someone already in Tunisia, who a role is open to, the contract, the employee test, leave, and what changed this year.
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