I disagree. Payroll, data protection, working hours - all things that go into a normal contract plus an enforcement mechanism/agreement.
If they don't work out you just fire them. It's more to give them peace of mind for them to sue you if you don't pay them.
I don't need to know anything about the host country as long as I don't violate sanctions. The idea is you have an employee contract sets out what you want and how much you will pay them, and say nothing about where the employee is allowed to live.
If you are an employer in the US then the US government will care very much about not violating sanctions.
The relevant local government will however care very much about full compliance with HR and tax law. And in an employment situation the employer has those responsibilities. (They are mitigated in a B2B contracting situation.)
As an example, even something like pensions is fiendishly complex nowadays. In the UK we have mandatory enrolment and the numbers you have to pay are a function of income tax and national insurance. Calculating the right figure from Delaware and codifying it an employment contract sounds intimidating enough alone.
I am not one for unnecessary risk averse beuracracy either, but I can understand why companies don’t want to touch this. It’s a minefield.
Incidentally, I suspect it’s a big reason why the Accentures of the world are as big as they are.
It's really not that simple. For example in france the government takes income tax and other social contributions directly from the paycheck. As the employer, it is your reponsibility to pay the french government some corporate tax on top of those taxes, you can't make the employee pay them for you. A solution would be paying directly a french company, for example one that the employee ows (as a self-entrepeneur, for example), but you can't ask that of potential hires. Of course, it's "easy" and well documented so you can figure it out for france, but you can't spend that much time doing that for every country especially when dealing with countries that are much less internationaly navigable.
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I disagree. Payroll, data protection, working hours - all things that go into a normal contract plus an enforcement mechanism/agreement.
If they don't work out you just fire them. It's more to give them peace of mind for them to sue you if you don't pay them.
I don't need to know anything about the host country as long as I don't violate sanctions. The idea is you have an employee contract sets out what you want and how much you will pay them, and say nothing about where the employee is allowed to live.
This seems like a US centric view?
If you are an employer in the US then the US government will care very much about not violating sanctions.
The relevant local government will however care very much about full compliance with HR and tax law. And in an employment situation the employer has those responsibilities. (They are mitigated in a B2B contracting situation.)
As an example, even something like pensions is fiendishly complex nowadays. In the UK we have mandatory enrolment and the numbers you have to pay are a function of income tax and national insurance. Calculating the right figure from Delaware and codifying it an employment contract sounds intimidating enough alone.
I am not one for unnecessary risk averse beuracracy either, but I can understand why companies don’t want to touch this. It’s a minefield.
Incidentally, I suspect it’s a big reason why the Accentures of the world are as big as they are.
It's really not that simple. For example in france the government takes income tax and other social contributions directly from the paycheck. As the employer, it is your reponsibility to pay the french government some corporate tax on top of those taxes, you can't make the employee pay them for you. A solution would be paying directly a french company, for example one that the employee ows (as a self-entrepeneur, for example), but you can't ask that of potential hires. Of course, it's "easy" and well documented so you can figure it out for france, but you can't spend that much time doing that for every country especially when dealing with countries that are much less internationaly navigable.