Seychelles
Employ in Seychelles without an entity.
A contract under Seychelles's Employment Act, pay in rupees, and pension and income tax handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Seychelles.
Paid in rupees, every month.
Hours set in the contract.
Up to 60 a week, with 24 hours of rest every seven days.
21 working days of annual leave.
Or a day and three quarters for each month, where employment lasts less than a year.
A minimum wage of SCR 40.95.
An hour, from 1 April 2025.
What employing in Seychelles involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
Written, in two copies, in English, French or Creole.
- A fixed term runs for at least three months. A non-Seychellois employee is on an attested fixed-term contract.
- Trial period: up to 6 months, on a first continuous contract.
- Pension
The Seychelles Pension Fund, compulsory for Seychellois employees.
- 5% from the employer and 5% from the employee, paid by the 21st of the next month.
- Income tax
Withheld by the employer each month.
- Citizens: nothing up to SCR 8,555.50 a month, 15% up to SCR 10,000, 20% up to SCR 83,333, and 30% above.
- Non-citizens: 15% on all pay up to SCR 10,000 a month, then the citizens' rates above it.
- Leave
21 working days a year.
- Sick leave: 21 paid days in any twelve months, and 30 more if in hospital.
- Maternity leave: 16 weeks paid, and four more unpaid.
- Paternity leave: 10 working days, after a year with the employer.
- Ending employment
A month's notice for most employees.
- Where the end is in no way the employee's doing: five sixths of a day's wage for each completed month of service.
Hiring in Seychelles, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in rupees.
The contract is put in place
Under Seychelles's Employment Act, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In rupees, with pension and income tax handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Seychelles
What does it take to employ a foreign national in Seychelles?
A foreign national in Seychelles needs a Gainful Occupation Permit from Immigration and Civil Status, applied for by the employer. It first needs a certificate from the Ministry of Employment showing the post was advertised and no Seychellois national is available, and a localisation plan. The employee works on an attested fixed-term contract.
Can an employer dismiss at will?
Is a thirteenth-month payment due?
Employing in Seychelles, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Seychelles: the work permit, the contract and a salary worked through, step by step
How you hire in Seychelles without an entity of your own: the work permit step by step, moving someone already in Seychelles, the contract, the employee test, what a salary costs and pays, leave, and what changed this year.
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