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Tunisia payroll, hiring, talent management, and compliance requirements for your employees and independent contractors.
Workforce Africa simplifies hiring, payroll, talent management as well as your compliance needs for employees and independent contractors in Tunisia. No need for a subsidiary or entity setup. From contracts and onboarding to taxes, payroll, and admin tasks, partnering with us — the Employer of Record in Tunisia, will help you focus on growth for greater levels of success.
Tunis
This depends on the type of employment. The probation period ranges from 6 to 9 months.
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Tunisian Dinar (TND)
2.06 per hour Tunisian Dinars for a 48-h0ur working week and 2.11 Dinars per hour for a 40-hour per week.
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Workforce Africa makes it hassle free to hire and manage your remote staff in Tunisia without having to first set up a subsidiary or entity in the country. We handle staff contract management and onboarding, payroll, compliance, taxes, and other administrative matters. With Workforce Africa, you can now focus more on strategic activities and growing your business. These items include >>
Payroll Cycle: Monthly
13th-month salary: Not mandatory by law but customary for companies
Employers must receive the permission of the Labor Inspector before employees can work overtime. The total number of work hours, regular plus overtime, cannot exceed 10 hours a day and 60 hours a week. Accordingly, overtime cannot exceed 12 hours in a 48-hour week or 20 hours in a 40-hour week. Overtime pay depends on whether the employee is working a 48-hour or 40-hour week.
48 hours a week or 40 hours a week, depending on the applicable collective labor agreement or employer policy. A work week consists of 5 days (Monday – Friday) and should not exceed 48 hours. A worker should not exceed 10 hours per day or 60 hours per week.
Paid holidays include:
New Year’s Day (January 1)
Revolution and Youth Day (January 14)
Independence Day (March 20)
Martyr’s Day (April 9)
Labor Day (May 1)
Eid Al-Fitr (varying date)
Eid Al-Adha (varying date)
Republic Day (July 25)
Islamic New Year (varying date)
Women’s Day (August 13)
Evacuation Day (October 15)
Mawlid (varying dates in October, November)
All foreigners staying in Tunisia for more than 3 consecutive months or 6 non-consecutive months in a calendar year need a residence visa. Two categories of residence permit exist:
Temporary Residence Visa: This one-year document is for foreign nationals who do not intend to establish permanent residence.
Visa for Permanent Residence – Foreigners who have resided temporarily in Tunisia for five consecutive years are granted a visa for permanent residence.
A residency permit is typically issued on a two-year renewable basis. With each new work agreement, these permits need to be renewed. Renewals of residence permits may be valid for up to five years. A Tunisia Employer of Record (EoR) offers this service to help businesses manage their clients.
Annual leave: An employee who has completed at least 1 month of actual work with the same employer is entitled to annual leave at the rate of 1 day per month with the total duration of annual leave not exceeding 15 calendar days per year, which shall include 12 working days in a year. This period increases with an increase in the length of service.
Sick leave: The Tunisian law does not make provision for sick days. However, employees must inform their employer within 48 hours of the illness and provide a medical certificate. Eligible employees receive payments while on sick leave from social security.
Maternity leave: An employee is entitled to 30 days of paid maternity leave on the birth of a child. In case of illness or complications arising due to pregnancy and confinement, an employee is entitled to an additional 15 days’ leave.
Breastfeeding break: A female employee is entitled to 2 paid nursing breaks, each of 30-minute duration, to breastfeed their child until the child is 12 months old. One break is fixed during the morning work, and the other during the afternoon. They can be taken by mothers at the hours fixed by agreement between them and the employers. The breastfeeding breaks are in addition to the normal breaks an employee receives during the working day, and they are counted in the working hours of such an employee.
Paternity leave: The spouse is entitled to 1 day of paid leave for the birth of the child. This leave can be taken in a period of 7 days calculated from the date of birth of the child.
Public holidays: The hours lost as a result of a public holiday or day off can be recovered within 6 months following the interruption of work. The hours thus recovered are paid at a regular rate. Even when recovering the lost working hours, the total hours of work cannot exceed 60 hours per week.
Military leave: An employee who has had to leave their job because they have been called up for military service in any capacity has the right to resume their job in the same professional category with the same employer.
Employees must be subject to the following social security contributions:
Social Security - 9.18%
Employers have the obligation to pay the following contributions in respect of each employee;
Social Security – 16.57%
Housing Levy – 1%
Workplace accident – ranging from 0.4% to 4%, depending on the business sector. Normally a rate of 0.5% applies to most industries.
A Tunisia employer of record can help employers make provision of health insurance policy for employees. For employees to receive sickness benefits, they must have at least 50 days of covered employment in the last two quarters or 80 days in the last fourth quarters before sickness began. The insured employee receives 66.7% of their daily average earnings for 180 days after a five-day waiting period. For up to 180 days a year for each next year, they receive 50%.
All overtime work must be compensated by the following percentages in addition to the base salary:
Full-time employment of 48 hours per week – 75%;
Full-time employment of fewer than 48 hours per week – 25%
Up to 48 hours and 50% thereafter;
And part-time employment – 50%.
Other typical supplemental benefits in Tunisia include performance-based bonuses.
Termination process: An employer must provide a compelling and legal reason for terminating an employee. The employee has the right to appeal their case before a discipline council prior to being fired.
Notice period: Written notice of one month’s worth of work is required.
Severance pay: Employees are entitled to severance pay unless they are fired for misconduct. For every month of employment, one day’s pay is subtracted from the total. Three months’ worth of pay is the maximum amount of severance.
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