Senegal
Employ in Senegal without an entity.
A contract under Senegal's 2026 Labour Code, pay in CFA francs, and social security and income tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Senegal.
Paid in CFA francs, every month.
A 40-hour week.
With at least 24 hours of rest each week, in principle on Sunday.
A new Labour Code.
Loi 2026-18, published in September 2026.
18 weeks' maternity leave.
12 of them after the birth.
What employing in Senegal involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Written for a trial period, a fixed term, part-time work and any foreign employee. Trial periods and fixed terms are registered with the labour inspectorate before work starts.
- A fixed term runs up to two years, renewable once, and four years in all, with an end-of-contract indemnity of 7% of gross pay.
- Trial period: in writing, up to six months including renewal.
- Social security
Family benefits and work accidents through the Caisse de Sécurité Sociale, paid by the employer, and pensions through IPRES.
- Pensions: 60% of the contribution from the employer and 40% from the employee.
- Health cover through an IPM, compulsory for every employer.
- IRIncome tax
Withheld by the employer each month.
- Nothing on the first XOF 630,000 a year, then rising through 20%, 30%, 35%, 37% and 40% to 43% above XOF 50,000,000.
- The employer also pays the CFCE, a 3% contribution.
- Leave
Two working days for each month of service, with more for seniority and for mothers.
- Sickness: the contract is suspended for up to six months, with full pay for as long as the notice period.
- Maternity leave: 18 weeks, 12 of them after the birth, with allowances from the family benefits branch.
- Ending employment
Notice of a month for workers and employees, two months for supervisors and three for managers, under the national collective agreement.
- Dismissal indemnity, after a year: 25% of a month's pay for each of the first five years, 30% for the next five, then 40%.
Hiring in Senegal, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in CFA francs.
The contract is put in place
Under Senegal's Labour Code, 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 Senegal
What does it take to employ a foreign national in Senegal?
In Senegal, a foreign employee's contract is written and approved by the Director-General of Labour and Social Security before work starts. The employer applies for that approval. Silence for seven clear days counts as approval. A refusal voids the contract. The employer then pays the return journey of a worker it brought from abroad.
Which labour law applies?
How long can a fixed-term contract run?
Employing in Senegal, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Senegal: the contract visa, the contract and what comes off pay, step by step
How you hire in Senegal without an entity of your own: the visa on a foreign national's contract step by step, moving someone already in Senegal, the contract under the 2026 Labour Code, the employee test, what comes off pay, leave, and what changed this year.
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