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How to hire remote employees in
Found somebody in Namibia you want to hire? Below, we’ll teach you how to bring that person onto your team—even if your company isn’t based in Namibia.
If you want to successfully hire in
Namibia
, you have two options:
Laws about hiring contractors are significantly more simple in
Namibia
. 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
Namibia
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
Namibia
.
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
Namibia
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
Namibia
, 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 Namibia 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 Namibia.
In Namibia, annual leave is calculated by multiplying an employee’s contracted number of working days per week by four.
Employees are entitled to 4 to 24 days of vacation leave depending on their service period.
There are 13 public holidays.
In Namibia, Employees who do not work longer than five days a week are entitled to 30 working days of sick leave.
Employees who work longer than five days a week are entitled to 36 days. During the first year of work, employees receive one day of sick leave for every 26 days worked.
Female employee would be entitled to:
The employer is liable to pay the employees’ remuneration except for the basic wage, which will be paid by social security.
There is no statutory paternity leave.
There are no statutory provisions for parental leave.
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Termination of the contract has been terminated by the employer when:
Unfair termination of an employment contract would take place if the said termination has taken place on grounds such
Notice period in Mauritius can be made only when the following:
In Mauritius, an employee is entitled to severance pay only after 12 months of continuous uninterrupted service.
This severance pay is equivalent to one week’s remuneration for each year of service.
The probation period is 3 months.
The standard working hours in Namibia is 45 hours a week and 9 hours per day for five days a week.
In Namibia, overtime is limited to three hours a day or 10 hours a week and paid at least one and half times (150%) of the employee’s hourly wage or double (200%) on Sunday or a public holiday.
There is an additional 6% over the employee’s hourly salary, excluding overtime, for work performed between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m.
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