Anguilla
White sand beaches, turquoise water, and plenty of good food—it’s no surprise remote talent wants to work from Anguilla. If you’ve found someone great based out of Anguilla and want to bring them onto your team, you’re in the right place. On this page, you’ll learn exactly what you need to know before making hires in Anguilla: Legal obligations, risks, and the easiest path to hiring great talent abroad.
Country snapshot
CURRENCY
East Caribbean dollar
EMPLOYER TAXES
5%-10%
PAYROLL FREQUENCY
Monthly
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
English
It’s the fastest way to hire globally
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’s a lot cheaper
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.
It’s more flexible for you & your team
Can be less risky than hiring employees
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.
Some people want to be employees
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.
You might not have as much control over your talent
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.
Anguilla is a no-tax jurisdiction, which more than explains why some of your team members may want to work from there—if the beaches weren’t enough. But there are different labor laws, different regulations, and different systems for hiring people in Anguilla than in your home country. If you don’t do things right, you’ll be putting your company at the risk of fines—and risk losing the talent you brought onboard.
Hire talent as contractors
Hire talent as employees
If you’ve read up until this point, you’ll know that it’s easier, cheaper, and more flexible to hire contractors in Anguilla 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 Anguilla
Employer tax
Social Security
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Employees receive 12 days of paid annual leave after one year of service.
This increases to 15 days after five years of service and 20 days after 10 years of service.
Employees also receive fully paid leave for jury duty or court hearings.
Public Holidays
There are 14 public holidays in Anguilla.
Sick Days
In Anguilla, employees receive 14 days of paid sick leave after one year of service.
Part-time employees are entitled to one paid sick day for every 22 days worked, after working at least 110 days.
Maternity Leave
Female employees receive 14 weeks of paid maternity leave after one year of service. There is also a maternity grant after 26 weeks of employment.
Paternity Leave
Male employees in Anguilla are entitled to one month of unpaid paternity leave, as well as a paternity benefit of two weeks payable at a percentage of the basic wage.
Parental Leave
No Info.
Other Leave
No Info.
Marriage Leave
No Info.
Bereavement Leave
In Anguilla, the employees in the government may granted a compassionate leave in specific circumstances as outlined in General Orders 7.31.
Officers are granted 5 days only in the event of a dangerous illness or death of a close relative.
Termination Process
Employment relationships may be terminated at the end of a fixed-term contract by the employer (with or without cause), or by the employee.
Notice Period
The employer must provide notice of termination. The required notice period depends on the type of work, service duration and payment interval.
Severance Pay
Employers must pay severance in some instances.
Probation Period
Probation period of employees shall not exceed in 3 months.
Working Hours
The standard workweek is 40 hours and eight hours per day.
Overtime
In Aguilla, employees overtime is paid at a percentage of the basic rate
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