Employer of Record – Hire Staff and successfully do business in Africa without an incorporated entity.
InterGest South Africa offers a service called Go2Africa –also known as an “Employer of Record” or EOR. The service includes InterGest South Africa becoming the legal employer of a worker in certain African countries. This means that we take care of all compliance aspects of employment, including payroll, taxes, statutory benefits, employment contracts and liabilities associated with having an employee in Africa.
Our Go2Africa service offering was created, knowing that to enter the business arena of Africa successfully, requires a special approach that allows your company to enter African markets without the traditional costs and administrative burden of staffing a private subsidiary.
How our Go2Africa EOR service works:
The appointed local employee will act as an exclusive on-site extension of your company abroad and will become the connection between your company and its products and business partners in Africa.
Services included in our Go2Africa EOR:
When a foreign company wants to hire a local employee in Africa but has no entity in the identified African country, we offer an employer of record service, called Go2Africa. The local employee will work for and report directly to the company’s headquarters, while InterGest South Africa, handles payroll and HR issues in Africa as the appointed EOR.
This enables our foreign clients to expand their business activities into Africa, without having to establish an entity or worry about local employment laws and taxes.
Our EOR service enables a foreign company to enjoy having a local presence in Africa, without having to incorporate a local entity in the African country where it intends on doing business.
Our service includes the following functions:
- Identification and recruitment of eligible candidates
- Creating and maintaining employment contracts
- Doing background checks and drug screenings
- Offering and administering benefits
- Collecting and processing time sheets
- Calculation and payment of the wage tax to the tax authorities.
- Handling workers’ compensation and employee insurance
- Monthly reporting (accounting salaries/commissions)
- Processing and payroll
- Terminating employees
Additional optional service offerings to the above:
- Import of the products (optional)
- Warehouse coordination with logistics companies (optional)
- Accounting / bookkeeping / reporting / sales tax returns (optional)
Benefits of our Go2Africa EOR service:
- Cost and time-effective option to establish your business abroad without having to set up your own representative office and hire personnel.
- Minimised risk through outsourcing. Once our clients have established that there are good business prospects in Africa, they can choose to incorporate a company in Africa. If not, the client can easily withdraw from the African market without any complications.
- No dependence on distributors or agents, who typically only have limited time and resources available to ensure the successful launch of your products in the new market, and/or very often carry competing or similar products in their portfolio.
- As the EOR, we handle all personnel functions, therefore saving our clients time so that they can focus on their important business functions, such as expanding their business activities in Africa.
- We stay updated on the local employment laws in the African country that you intend on doing business in so that our clients don’t have to worry about learning and complying with laws in multiple African countries.
- Predictability – our fees are set at a fixed monthly rate per employee.
Go2Africa EOR responsibilities defined:
InterGest South Africa is liable for: Employment issues along with payroll compliance and tax laws of the local employees.
The client is responsible for: Managing and communicating the required KPIs that the employee is expected to meet. The employee reports directly to the client, meaning that the manager to whom the employee reports will retain control over business operations.
About InterGest South Africa:
InterGest South Africa has been assisting multinational companies with their market entry in Africa for 20 years. With our local knowledge and an extensive network of experts, we can offer all-around support to your venture on the African continent. Together with our network, we pride ourselves in our knowledge and access to strategic African countries in which we provide tailored solutions to assist our clients with their market entry strategies.
For more information, send an email to contact@intergest.co.za or visit our website, www.intergest.co.za
