The more your business grows, the more important it becomes to hire global talent in new markets.
The South African market in particular provides numerous benefits, particularly with regards to cost and access to a diverse, talented workforce in an English-speaking country.
Teaming up with a good EOR service is critical for maintaining local employment laws, tax regulations, payroll management, general HR support, and various compliance matters across a global workforce.
Employer of Record SA supports global expansion by emphasising hiring permanent employees that grow with your business.
They also provide expert management of short-term contracts and efficiency in terms of payrolling processing and numerous administrative tasks.
They guarantee quality hires in South Africa across all disciplines without restriction and provide seamless employee onboarding services for both home-based and in-office hires.
That said, their speciality is remote work, including the areas of:
Employer of Record SA is a South African provider, with years of local expertise and local infrastructure.
South Africa boasts a robust regulatory environment when it comes to the workplace.
Employer of Record SA have a strong understanding of local employment laws, compliance, and tax regulations. They will also manage contracts and tax withholdings.
EOR SA's innate scalability provides ample opportunity to benefit from the South African Rand to optimise your expenses and mitigate risks.
South Africa is highly multicultural and its work environment reflects this. EOR SA strives to find cohesion between diverse teams, while also emphasising training, benefits, and growth opportunities.
The Legends Agency is an EOR with a focus on forming fruitful partnerships with businesses looking to set up in South Africa, in accordance with local laws.
They've developed comprehensive talent databases used to vet and onboard employees that best match your needs. They take all the frustrating admin off your hands and allow you to focus on interviewing, all while ensuring compliance at every step.
Employing foreign nationals comes with a tonne of potential pain points.
The Legends Agency recognises this and has established a suite of bespoke, international support services to assist their clients with everything from paternity leave and working hours, to public holidays, and all other legal aspects of hiring and maintaining South African staff.
While many EORs boast the ability to find employees in various disciplines, The Legends Agency does that and more.
Over the years, they've developed a particular expertise developing a talented workforce in a few particular areas. These are:
One of the perks of The Legends Agency as a legal employer is how it simplifies payroll processing.
All you need to do is decide the salary and they take care of processing, benefits, tax deductions, overtime pay, etc.
This is an EOR with extensive knowledge of the South African market.
This includes the many intricacies of South African employment laws, benefits administration, health insurance, working hours, the employment contract, paternity leave, and others.
They strive to understand your expectations and business needs, aligning their hiring strategies accordingly throughout the sourcing, negotiating, and onboarding processes.
Throughout an employee's tenure, The Legends Agency provides continuous support with regards to managing cultural risks and ensuring compliance.
Deel is lauded as a legal employer for its cost-effective solutions, affordability, and user-friendly design.
The platform assists international employment by managing the likes of payroll, benefits administration, and compliance, allowing you to focus on daily business operations.
Deel handles the HR management aspects legally required to hire in South Africa.
Its compliance structure is designed to minimise risk surrounding areas like minimum wage, overtime, paid sick leave, terminations, and employment contracts.
Not only does Deel employ experts in local laws, but the service tracks changes in the South African regulatory environment, updating you on everything you need to know.
This covers tax compliance, workers compensation, leave changes, statutory benefits, and more.
'Ease-of-Use' is a key focus area with Deel.
Their platform makes the onboarding process simple, collects and localises any vital documentation, allows employees to easily submit leave requests, and provides deep analytical reporting.
Deel offers a free option for businesses with up to 200 people, with a flat rate user pricing.
Remote is a multifaceted, legal employer and HR platform specialised in remote talent acquisition, as well as contractor and HR management.
Hiring employees in South Africa is made easier with their emphasis on integrations, robust HR systems, fast and easy onboarding, and employee data management.
A key feature of Remote as an EOR is their global solution for HR and labour law compliance, Watchtower.
This system provides clear, actionable alerts on compliance issues such as changes to employment law.
Its dashboard continuously tracks and provides data to ensure sick leave, notice periods, payment, public holidays, and more are handled according to regulations.
Remote provides valuable salary insights designed to help employers reduce negotiation periods and make fair, data-driven salary decisions.
This data is collected from a wide variety of business sources to ensure accuracy and competitiveness in the South African market.
Limited, unlocalised benefits packages can be a barrier to entry when building up staff to expand internationally. Remote develops robust benefits packages specific to South Africa.
Extensive benefits such as health insurance, pension plans, mental health support, sick leave, life insurance, and more can be included to guarantee attracting high quality candidates.
The Remote EOR service is priced at around £40 per user.
Oyster's HR platform consolidates payroll processing and reporting, invoice management, and reimbursements into one straightforward, legally compliant software platform that makes it a breeze to pay employees and abide by local labour laws.
It provides valuable insights and automations to ensure that you as an employer are fully supported and that your staff are equitably contracted.
Oyster's platform includes tools to manage and customise legally compliant employment contracts and ease the pain of the onboarding process, while also providing the flexibility to convert contractors to permanent staff.
The key distinction of Oyster's hiring process among other EORs is automation.
The platform's virtual assistant provides valuable insights in real time, while location-specific hiring templates, automated, compliant agreements, and contract quality scores align your hiring practices with South African law and assist you in securing top talent.
Oyster prioritises customer support from beginning to end.
Its team consists of legal and HR professionals fully equipped to provide specialised assistance to your business throughout its global expansion.
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Oyster's service is roughly £400 per employee monthly, or £20+ for contractors.
Remofirst is a dependable EOR with 24/7 customer service and a powerful platform for managing your HR in South Africa.
Their expertise will help you manage any misclassification risks, have successful audits, and coordinate your global staff with ease.
In short, the administrative burden of onboarding and coordinating a remote team in South Africa is taken care of, compliance guaranteed.
Remofirst promises same day onboarding for staff in over 180 countries.
Their all-in-one HR and payroll platform accurately considers time off, holidays, bonuses, commissions, and South African working hours, ensuring on-time payments in South African Rand.
Remofirst knows the costly consequences of misclassifications and will help you prevent any hefty fines or more severe repercussions by setting your HR up according to your employee's local laws.
Remofirst's model starts at £20+ per user, monthly.
Multiplier provides everything your business needs to bring on South African workers both legally and efficiently. They'll take care of taxes, payroll, benefits, expenses, and the full scope of local compliance.
Their expertise in developing contracts according to local employment law will serve you well in avoiding costly non-compliance issues and providing competitive packages for your staff.
Their user-friendly dashboard makes it easy to keep track of and manage staff activity.
The multiplier platform is capable of adding freelancers to your network, while giving them the tools to issue invoices as needed.
Whether its printing, petrol, or computer paraphernalia, Multiplier will allow your staff to easily submit reimbursement claims and include them in the payroll cycle.
Going beyond compliance, Multiplier's expertise in the South African environment allows them to deliver locally competitive benefits and insurance packages, including dependents coverage, to entice quality hires.
Their platform begins at £40 per month for freelancers and £400 for full-time hires.
Foxhire offers guaranteed solutions with regards to compliant payment, tax, insurance, and employee support in a South African setting.
Both timesheet collections and expenses are automated in order to ensure that your employees are paid correctly and on-time.
They also develop valuable new hire reports, handle terminations, conduct all employee screening, and manage benefits administration on your behalf.
Foxhire can offer some of the most competitive insurance benefits packages around, covering the likes of medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
Managing payroll funding, weekly payroll, daily payroll, direct deposits, payroll and unemployment insurance fund taxes, as well as invoicing and collections are all part of the package.
Foxhire offers unique expertise hiring staff in the fields of:
Pricing packages for Foxhire are available on direct request.
Expanding into new markets can be an excellent tool for cutting costs and tapping into new talent pools. That makes choosing a dependable EOR service critical for sustainability and success.
The best EORs ensure that your staff are paid accurately and receive equitable contracts, while businesses benefit from lower cost hires, new viewpoints, and the diversity of talent that South Africa provides.
