Zimbabwe
Employ in Zimbabwe without an entity.
A contract under Zimbabwe's Labour Act, pay in ZiG or US dollars, and social security, income tax and the training levy handled every month. One contact and one invoice.
The facts of employing in Zimbabwe.
Paid in ZiG or US dollars.
With an income tax table for each.
Vacation leave from the second year.
Building up at a twelfth of each year's qualifying service.
Income tax up to 40%.
Plus an AIDS levy of 3% of the tax.
Ending employment is restricted.
By mutual agreement, or for a breach found at a hearing.
What employing in Zimbabwe involves, in plain words.
Each is handled for everyone you employ through Global Kinect EOR.
- Contracts
A contract exists whether written or not, and the employer gives the particulars in writing on hiring.
- Trial period: one period only, up to three months, with two weeks' notice during it.
- NSSASocial security
Pension contributions to the National Social Security Authority, from employer and employee alike.
- 4.5% each, on earnings up to USD 700 a month.
- NSSA also runs the Accident Prevention and Workers' Compensation Scheme, funded by the employer alone at a rate set for its industry.
- PAYEIncome tax
Withheld by the employer each month, on separate US dollar and ZiG tables.
- In US dollars: nothing up to USD 100 a month, then 20%, 25%, 30% and 35%, and 40% above USD 3,000.
- In ZiG: nothing up to ZWG 2,800 a month, on the same rates, and 40% above ZWG 84,000.
- An AIDS levy of 3% of the tax due.
- ZIMDEFTraining levy
1% of the monthly gross wage bill, paid by the employer.
- Leave
Vacation leave from the second year, building up at a twelfth of each year's qualifying service, to at most 90 days.
- Sick leave: up to 90 days a year on full pay, then up to 90 on half pay.
- Maternity leave: 98 days on full pay, with no service requirement.
- Ending employment
An employer may end a contract only by written mutual agreement, or for a breach found at a hearing under an employment code.
- Notice: three months on an open-ended contract or one of two years or more.
- Retrenchment needs 14 days' written notice to the works council or employment council, the Retrenchment Board and the employees.
Hiring in Zimbabwe, step by step.
You choose the person
And agree the role and the salary in ZiG or US dollars.
The contract is put in place
Under Zimbabwe's Labour Act, with a work permit where one is needed.
They are paid monthly
In ZiG or US dollars, with NSSA, income tax and ZIMDEF handled.
You get one invoice
With every other country you hire in.
Questions about employing in Zimbabwe
Can an employer in Zimbabwe end a contract on notice?
Not freely. Since the 2023 amendment to Zimbabwe's Labour Act, an employer may end a contract only by written mutual agreement, or for a breach found at a hearing under an employment code. Retrenchment has its own route, with 14 days' written notice to the works council or employment council, the Retrenchment Board and the employees, and a minimum package.
Can salaries be paid in US dollars?
How is the minimum wage set?
Employing in Zimbabwe, worked through in full.
The guide goes further than this page.
- Hiring in Zimbabwe: the employment permit, the contract and what comes off pay, step by step
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