No matter where your home country is, Haiti’s labor laws are different than where you’re from (unless you’re from Haiti, that is). This all means that hiring can be a bit confusing to the uninitiated. Simply put, though, you have two options: Hiring people as employees, or hiring people as contractors.
If you want to successfully hire in
Haiti
, you have two options:
Laws about hiring contractors are significantly more simple in
Haiti
. 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 Panther 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
Haiti
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
Haiti
.
Hiring employees takes months, at the minimum. When you hire with Panther’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 Panther, then $49 per month to hire your contractors with Panther. 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
Haiti
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 generally puts you at a bigger risk for legal fees. When you hire contractors overseas, your biggest risk is misclassification—but even then, misclassification penalties are often minimal and just require you to pay off any compensation that the person would have been owed as an employee.
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
Haiti
, you can pay them with Panther 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 Haiti 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 Haiti.
Employees in Haiti receive 15 days of paid leave, including 13 working days and two Sundays. Vacation days are not cumulative.
Employees with less than one year of service are entitled to annual leave that equals 1.25 times the number of months worked.
There are 12 public holidays in Haiti.
In Haiti, employees receive 15 days of paid sick leave a year after one year of service.
Employees with less than one year of service are entitled to sick days on a prorated basis.
Employees must provide a medical certificate.
Female employees are entitled to 12 weeks of paid maternity leave. A minimum of four weeks must be taken before birth.
Six weeks is paid by the Office of Occupational Accident Insurance, Sickness, and Maternity (OFATMA), provided the employee registers.
The remaining six weeks are paid for by the employer.
There are no statutory laws for paternity leave in Haiti.
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Employment may be terminated at the end of a fixed term contract, by mutual consent, by the employer (with or without cause) or by the employee.
Employers can terminate an employee without providing notice for threatening or abusive conduct, damage to property, unauthorized absence for three consecutive days or four days in a month, failing to follow accident prevention measures, lying about qualifications, imprisonment for more than one month or breach of contract.
Notice is only required for employees with over three months of service and varies depending on the length of service.
Severance pay is not required by law in Haiti.
Employees may be dismissed without notice within the probation period.
The standard working hours is 48 hours a week, or eight hours a day over six days.
Generally, employees in Haiti has a maximum overtime allowed is two hours a day, 80 hours every quarter of the year or 320 hours per year.
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