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How to hire remote employees in
Want to hire someone in Kazakhstan? Excellent. You’ve got two options: You can hire your team as employees, or you can hire them as contractors. Below, we’ll elaborate on the details between those two, plus the option we think you’ll prefer.
If you want to successfully hire in
Kazakhstan
, you have two options:
Laws about hiring contractors are significantly more simple in
Kazakhstan
. Onboarding talent takes days, not weeks or months. Both you, the company, and your talent have more flexibility. And in many cases, since you’re remote, the talent you’re hiring is better classified as a contractor, anyway. Of course, it’s not possible in every case, but it’s what we built Thera for.
This is the long route. You can either establish a physical presence with an entity and register as an employer, or you can use an Employer-of-Record (EOR) solution. Odds are, you’ll find using an EOR to be the easier route. Still, using an EOR in
Kazakhstan
is expensive—it can often be $500 per month per employee—and sometimes prone to lengthy onboarding times.
Hiring contractors is normally the easier, faster, more flexible choice—but don’t just take it from us. Below are the specific benefits and drawbacks to hiring contractors in
Kazakhstan
.
Hiring employees takes months, at the minimum. When you hire with Thera's locally-generated contracts, it’s a matter of days or weeks. This means you can hire the best talent, fast, without losing them to a hellish procession of paperwork.
It costs just $0 to sign up for Thera, then $25 per month to hire your contractors with Thera. If you hired employees manually (or did contracting on your own), you’d likely be on the hook for thousands of dollars each month. Setting up an entity alone can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Hiring contractors in
Kazakhstan
means you’re generally not on the hook for things like health insurance and paid time off. This makes hiring flexible for you, and it gives your talent more options.
Hiring employees is a bigger commitment, and can open you up to increased liabilities and regulations. When you hire contractors overseas, your biggest risk is misclassification—but laws surrounding contractor classification are often significantly more straightforward.
The contractor life isn’t for everyone—some people want the security that being an employee often appears to provide. Though it’s rare, this does happen, and it’s one disadvantage of manage an all-contractor team.
Most countries’ contractor-employer relationship laws stipulate that the employer can’t set fixed working hours, among other things. These laws give contractors more freedom over how and when they do their work than an employee would have. In reality, however, most contractors are willing & able to work on the company’s schedule—it’s a matter of setting expectations beforehand.
If you’re hiring contractors in
Kazakhstan
, you can pay them with Thera in a single click. You won’t need to worry about complicated wire transfers, fees, or currency conversions. We’ll take care of it all. Just make a click and your contractor will get paid in their currency of choice. This is a valuable bonus for talent in countries where the local currency is particularly weak—most people appreciate the ability to receive their payment in stronger currencies.
If you’ve read up until this point, you’ll know that it’s easier, cheaper, and more flexible to hire contractors in Kazakhstan than employees. Still, there are valid reasons why you might want to hire employees instead. The content below is for you—we’ll cover employer taxes and obligations in Kazakhstan.
PTO is calculated by the:
There are 12 public holidays.
The duration of sick leave entitlement provided to workers is dependent on how long they have been employed by their employer:
Mothers are entitled to 126 days of maternity leave, divided into 70 days before the expected due date and 56 after the birth of a child.
In the event of a difficult birth, leave after the birth can be extended by 14 days.
If a mother resides in an area where nuclear tests are performed, maternity leave is 160 days and is divided by 90 days before the expected due date and 70 after the birth.
Maternity leave is paid by the employer.
There are no provisions in the law regarding paternity leave.
Parents or relatives are entitled to unpaid leave to care for a child until the child reaches the age of 3.
Birth of a child - Up to 5 calendar days of unpaid leave
Up to 5 calendar days of unpaid leave.
Up to 5 calendar days of unpaid leave.
An employer or employee must provide written notice to the employee notifying them of the termination of the employment agreement.
On the last day of employment, the employer must provide a termination letter and include the reason for termination.
If the employee requests it, the employer must provide an employment certificate and include information such as dates employed, nature of the job, salary, and recommendation.
This letter must be provided within 5 working days from the date of request.
The notice period is 1 month. If the employee agrees, payment in lieu of notice can be given.
There are no provisions in the law regarding severance pay.
Probation period is 3 months.
A full-time work week is 40 hours or 6 hours per day.
In general, overtime work must be agreed on in writing by the employee and employer. Overtime cannot exceed 2 hours per day or 1 hour for dangerous work. In addition, overtime cannot exceed 12 hours per month.
Overtime is paid at the rate of 150% of the regular pay. It is also possible to give 1 hour over paid leave for every hour of overtime.
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