Antigua & Barbuda
You may know Antigua & Barbuda as a vacation destination, and for good reason. But it’s also home to great remote talent. If you want to bring someone from Antigua & Barbuda onto your team, you’ll want to scroll down this page: We’ll teach you exactly what you need to know about legal obligations, risks, plus the easiest way to hire someone from the islands.
Country snapshot
CURRENCY
East Caribbean dollar
EMPLOYER TAXES
8%
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.
Hiring outside of your home country means access to more talent—but it also means new regulations, labor laws, and systems. If you don’t do things right, you’ll be putting your company at the risk of fines and lost talent. So we’re here to save you from those headaches.
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 Antigua & Barbuda 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 Antigua & Barbuda.
Employer tax
Insurable earnings
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Employees receive up to 12 days of paid annual leave. Both the employer and employee must agree on the vacation date and vacations are paid in advance.
Public Holidays
There are 12 public holidays.
Sick Days
According to Section C 17 of the Labour Code states ,each employee, for at least the first twelve days of sick leave taken during any twelve consecutive months, calculated from the date of commencement of employment and any anniversary date thereof, shall be entitled to that basic wage, and the employer shall give him that basic wage, which he would have received had he worked on those days.
Maternity Leave
Maternity allowance is paid for a maximum of 13 weeks, commencing as early as 6 weeks before confinement or as late as the week of confinement.
Paternity Leave
There is no statutory paternity leave.
Parental Leave
The mother, or with her consent the father, is entitled to a total of 158 working days of parental leave, which may be divided into a maximum of two parts, each part lasting a minimum of 12 working days.
Other Leave
No Info.
Marriage Leave
No Info.
Bereavement Leave
Employees who have worked for an employer for a continuous 6 month period (or for an average of 10 hours a week and at least 1 hour per day or 40 hours per month during the last 6 months) are entitled to:
(a) 3 days’ bereavement leave on the death of a spouse or partner, parent or parent-in-law, child, brother or sister, grandparent, or grandchild; and
(b) 1 day’s bereavement leave on the death of any other person, if the employer accepts, having regard to relevant factors, that the employee has suffered a bereavement as a result of the death.
Termination Process
Employers need just cause to dismiss an employee, which can include employee misconduct, poor performance or economic reasons.
Notice Period
Notice of termination generally is required except for in a limited set of circumstances. The notice period is one month.
Severance Pay
Employees receive one day of severance per month of service after they have 12 months of service.
Probation Period
Probation period is 3 months.
Working Hours
The standard workweek is 48 hours or eight hours day over six days.
Overtime
Overtime is typically 150% of the basic wage for the first four hours over normal work hours and double the basic wage for hours over that.
Employees receive at least 24 hours of consecutive rest in a period of seven days in a row.
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