Gambia
Want to onboard some talent from Gambia? First, you’ll need to understand how you can legally hire someone there—without signing yourself up for thousands of dollars in fees. On this page, we’ll teach you the fastest, easiest, most flexible way to hire talent in Gambia. Shall we?
Country snapshot
CURRENCY
Gambian Dalasi
EMPLOYER TAXES
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.
Laws about hiring are complicated enough. Try to research overseas laws (in Gambia, for instance) and it gets unbearably confusing. So we’re here to help. Bottom line is, if you want to hire in Gambia, you’ve got two options: You can hire your remote teammates as regular employees, or you can hire them as contractors. There are some serious differences you should know about, and we’ll cover them below.
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 Gambia 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 Gambia.
Employer tax
Social Security
Paid Time Off (PTO)
In Gambia, annual leave is paid at 100% of the employee’s normal wages.
If a public holiday lands during a time when an employee is taking annual leave, the employee is entitled to an additional days’ pay to compensate.
An employee’s annual leave is determined by what the employee and employer agree to in their employment contract.
An employee gets a paid leave for every public holiday. If the public holiday falls during a weekend or annual leaves, the company pays extra as compensation.
Public Holidays
There are 14 public holidays.
Sick Days
Sick leave is determined by an employee’s employment contract or a collective bargaining agreement. The rate at which sick leave is paid is also determined by the employment contract.
Maternity Leave
The only criterion for maternity leave is that the employee must have worked under the same employer for two years.
A female employee is eligible for paid maternity leave for 12 weeks. Six weeks can be taken before the birth of the child and the remaining can be utilized after the birth.
The employer pays 100% of the employee’s salary during maternity leave.
Paternity Leave
There are no provisions in the Gambian law regarding paternity leave.
Parental Leave
Other than the already mentioned terms regarding maternity and paternity leaves, there are no other provisions in the law in Gambia regarding parental leave.
Other Leave
No Info.
Marriage Leave
No Info.
Bereavement Leave
No Info.
Termination Process
Termination of the employment contract is possible ;
- Fixed-term employment is terminated at the end of the contract period.
- Either the employee or employer can terminate the employment on mutual agreement from service, in the case of indefinite contracts.
- An employee can be terminated for severe misconduct before the contract expires without a notice period.
Notice Period
Notice period in Gambia for a fixed-term contract, the notice period is 14 days. For an indefinite period contract, it’s dependent on the length of service and the salary payment interval.
Severance Pay
In Gambia, the penalty for wrongful termination of contract may be as high as 36 months pay.
Probation Period
The probationary period in the Gambia cannot be more than 12 months for skilled workers.
Working Hours
The standard working hours in Gambia are 38 hours per week.
Overtime
The labor law in the Gambia does not specify the rest time, overtime eligibility, or work schedule in general.
Employees are not permitted to work overtime. While the law requires that overtime be compensated, it does not specify the rate of pay.
Overtime, on the other hand, is typically compensated at a rate of 150 percent of regular pay.
Overtime pay is 200 percent of regular pay on weekends and holidays.
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