Laws about hiring are complicated, and that’s especially true in Swaziland. If your company hasn’t already established a physical presence in Swaziland, you have two real options when it comes to hiring. We’ll detail both below.
If you want to successfully hire in
Swaziland
, you have two options:
Laws about hiring contractors are significantly more simple in
Swaziland
. 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
Swaziland
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
Swaziland
.
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
Swaziland
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
Swaziland
, 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 Swaziland 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 Swaziland.
PTO is calculated by the:
There are 11 public holidays.
The duration of sick leave entitlement provided to workers that is:
Female employees are generally entitled to 12 weeks of maternity leave, six weeks of which may be taken before the due date.
Two weeks of the leave are paid, if the employee has worked for at least one year.
There is no statutory paternity leave.
Standard parental benefits of up to 40 weeks split between two parents (but one parent cannot receive more than 35 weeks of standard benefits).
None.
None.
Employees can take up to one month of unpaid compassionate leave per year.
Employees engaged to perform supervisory technical or confidential work may have a longer probationary period, but it must be agreed to in writing.
The notice period in Swaziland is:
An employee may be paid in lieu of notice.
The Severance Pay in Swaziland once a terminated employee is eligible for severance pay of 10 working day’s wages for each completed year of service after the first year.
Probation period is 3 months.
The work week should not exceed 5.5 days.
Employees can work overtime, but they must consent to perform the extra hours.
All employees working overtime must get paid at least one and a half times their normal wage rate.
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