Cameroon
Want to hire someone from Cameroon? A little less sure how you’re supposed to hire them, especially since your company’s HQ is located somewhere else? Then, welcome: You’re in the right place. In the next few minutes, you’ll learn how to hire remote talent in Cameroon, quickly, without wading into months and thousands of dollars of legal red tape.
Country snapshot
CURRENCY
Cfa Franc Beac
EMPLOYER TAXES
12.95% - 16.2%
PAYROLL FREQUENCY
Weekly/Monthly (unless commission based)
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
French
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 abroad is 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 Cameroon (and the one we prefer).
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 Cameroon 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 Cameroon.
Employer tax
Family allowances
Pension and Disability
Work-related accident and sickness
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Employees are therefore entitled to ten days of paid time off during family activities. For any child under the age of six, female employers are entitled to two days of paid leave.
Employees accrue 1.5 days of paid vacation leave for each month worked and after five years of service, employees receive a further two days a month.
Public Holidays
There are 11 public holidays.
Sick Days
Employees receive five days of paid sick leave each year and employers are responsible for medical treatment if the employee was injured during work.
Maternity Leave
The expectant mother's regular rate of pay is compensated after maternity leave by social security. Female workers are entitled to 14 weeks of maternity leave, beginning four weeks before the due date, covered by the CNPS.
Maternity leave starts four weeks prior to the due date of the baby's arrival. If the time of confinement occurs after the due date, the maternity leave will resume in full once the period of confinement starts.
Paternity Leave
Paternity leave will be taken from the 10 days of voluntary paid parental leave available to fathers.
Parental Leave
Other than the already mentioned terms for maternity and paternity leaves, there are no provisions in the Cameroon law regarding parental leave.
Other Leave
No Info.
Marriage Leave
No Info.
Bereavement Leave
No Info.
Termination Process
Fixed-term contracts are capped at 24 months and can be extended once and can only be terminated for gross misconduct and mutual consent.
Employers can dismiss employees when a fixed-term contract ends, when the specific work ends, for misconduct, for economic reasons or for just cause.
Notice Period
During the notice period, the employee is permitted to take one day off every week to look for work. The notice period is determined by the Minister of Labor.
Severance Pay
In Cameroon, employees qualify for severance pay after two years of service.
Probation Period
Probation period is 6 months.
Working Hours
The standard working hours in Cameroon is 40 hours.
Overtime
In Cameroon ,overtime pay should not be less than 125% of the regular rate of pay. Employees are permitted to work up to 20 hours of overtime per week.
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