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South Africa 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 South Africa. No need for a subsidiary or entity setup. From contracts and onboarding to taxes, payroll, and admin tasks, partnering with us. Using an employer of record in South Africa will help you scale the market suceessfully and focus on growth for greater levels of success.
Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg
From one (1) week to one (1) month
Yes
South African Rand (ZAR)
ZAR20.76 per hour
Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
Workforce Africa makes it hassle free to hire and manage your remote staff in South Africa without having to first set up a subsidiary or entity in 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:
An employment contract is required and must be written in English. It must adequately state the employee’s position and job description/functions, compensation, benefits and other terms and conditions of the contract.
The Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) regulates working hours and overtime. Employees may work a maximum of 45 hours a week (excluding lunch hours) at a normal rate of pay. That is 9 hours per day for a 5-day week and 8 hours a day for a work week of more than 5 days. Employees may work a maximum of 3 hours overtime per day or 10 hours in any one week. Overtime is calculated at 1.5 x normal rate and 2 x for Sundays and public holidays.
Public holidays are proclaimed each year but these are the official holidays:
All foreign workers (whether working for an employer or self-employed) must ensure that they have a valid work permit to work in the country. The work permit must remain valid at all times. Failure to do so will be liable to prosecution and in the event of removal from the country, the employer shall bear the deportation costs.
Health insurance is not mandatory but may be offered as an employee benefit, with the costs shared between the employer and employee.
Pension, Medical Insurance
The notice period depends on the contractual agreement but ranges from 1 week to 1 month. Termination by either party shall be done via written notice:
In the event of termination of employment for operational reasons, severance pay is paid at 1 week’s salary for every completed year of service.
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