Equatorial Guinea
Employ in Equatorial Guinea without an entity.
A contract under Equatorial Guinea's General Labour Law, pay in CFA francs, and social security and income tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Equatorial Guinea.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
Every contract registered.
With the Ministry of Labour.
A seniority payment.
At least 30 days' salary for each year of service.
Two bonuses a year.
Fifteen days' salary for Independence Day, and as much for the New Year.
What employing in Equatorial Guinea involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Every contract is verified and registered with the Ministry of Labour.
- An employer that ends a fixed term early without cause pays the salary owed to its end date.
- Trial period: up to a month for unskilled staff, three months for mid-level technicians and six months for senior or highly skilled staff.
- INSESOSocial security
The national social security institute, from employer and employee.
- The employee's deductions for social security and the labour protection fund are worked out on the base salary, and never exceed 5% of it.
- Income tax
Withheld by the employer from pay, as the tax law sets out.
- Leave
Sickness and maternity benefits are paid by INSESO, at 50% of the contribution base, after twelve months of contributions.
- Annual leave: 30 days on full pay for each year of unbroken work.
- Maternity leave: six weeks before the birth and six after it, with INSESO's benefit for the six weeks after.
- Ending employment
A seniority payment of at least 30 days' salary for each year of service, when a contract expires, on retirement or on a justified resignation.
- Notice in writing: a week after a month's work, or 20 days after six months.
- Where a labour court finds a dismissal unjustified, the employer reinstates the employee with back pay, or, if it keeps to the dismissal, pays 45 days' salary for each year worked.
Hiring in Equatorial Guinea, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under Equatorial Guinea's General Labour Law, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In CFA francs, with social security and income tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Equatorial Guinea
What does ending employment cost in Equatorial Guinea?
Under Equatorial Guinea's General Labour Law, an employee receives a seniority payment of at least 30 days' salary for each year of service when a contract expires, on retirement or on a justified resignation. Where a labour court finds a dismissal unjustified, the employer reinstates the employee with back pay. If the employer keeps to the dismissal, it pays 45 days' salary for each year worked.
Which labour law applies?
Is there a minimum wage?
Can we employ a foreign national?
Employing in Equatorial Guinea, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Equatorial Guinea: the work permit, the contract and what comes off pay, step by step
How you hire in Equatorial Guinea without an entity of your own: the work permit step by step, moving someone already in the country, who a role is open to, the registered contract, the employee test, what comes off pay, leave, and what changed this year.
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