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How to hire remote employees in
Hiring abroad is notoriously difficult: New labor laws, entities, a lot of words you’d rather not hear again. But we’ve got good news—it doesn’t need to be that way. Below, we’ll break down your two main options for hiring in Chad (and the one we prefer).
If you want to successfully hire in
Chad
, you have two options:
Laws about hiring contractors are significantly more simple in
Chad
. 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 Thera 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
Chad
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
Chad
.
Hiring employees takes months, at the minimum. When you hire with Thera'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 Thera, then $25 per month to hire your contractors with Thera. 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
Chad
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 can open you up to increased liabilities and regulations. When you hire contractors overseas, your biggest risk is misclassification—but laws surrounding contractor classification are often significantly more straightforward.
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
Chad
, you can pay them with Thera 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 Chad 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 Chad.
Employees receive between 24 and 26 days of paid annual leave. Those with 10+ years of service are entitled to 26 days of paid leave.
There are 11 public holidays.
Employees in Chad are generally entitled to at least five paid sick days per year.
Female employees in a company receive fourteen (14) weeks of half-paid maternity leave.
This increases up to three weeks for a pregnancy-related illness. They are eligible for an hour of rest a day for breastfeeding for up to 15 months after the birth.
Female employees can extend their maternity leave if the childbirth is before the expected date.
Male employees receive two weeks of paid paternity leave.
There are no statutory provisions for parental leave.
Emergency Family Leave - Employees are entitled to ten (10) days of leave in order to tend to any family emergencies.
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Fixed-term contracts cannot be renewed more than once and the duration cannot exceed twenty four (24) months.
Employees can be terminated when the work contract for a specific project is complete, for misconduct, the end of a fixed-term contract or by mutual consent.
The notice period is 8.67 weeks for those with at least five years of service.
Severance pay is 5.42 weeks for those with more than five years of service.
Those with 10 years of service receive 11.9 weeks of severance pay.
The probation period is 3 months.
The standard working hours in Chad is 39 hours per week
In Chad, employees overtime is 94 hours annually. The conditions for working overtime will be determined by a decree enacted by the relevant Ministry applicable to the kind of work performed.
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