Mauritius
So you’ve found some great talent in Mauritius, but a little less sure how you’re supposed to go about hiring them? You’re in the right place. In the next few minutes, you’ll learn how to hire remote talent in Mauritius, quickly, without wading into months and thousands of dollars of legal red tape.
Country snapshot
CURRENCY
Mauritian Rupee
EMPLOYER TAXES
2.5%
PAYROLL FREQUENCY
Monthly
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
Mauritian Creole, English, 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 notoriously 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 Mauritius (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 Mauritius 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 Mauritius.
Employer tax
Pension contribution
Paid Time Off (PTO)
An employer must refund the annual leaves that are not taken by an employee if it has been contractually agreed upon by the employer and employee. Employees may receive 20 days annual leave and additional leave of 2 days.
However, they can impose a rule that half of the total number of annual leaves must be taken by an employee.
Public Holidays
There are 13 public holidays.
Sick Days
Employer may send a medical practitioner on their behalf to verify the health status of an employee who is out on sick leave.
The employee may be subjected to disciplinary actions according to the laws. An employee can take up to 15 days of sick leave every year.
These leaves can be accumulated for up to 90 days. If an employee works for an employer consecutively for five years, they can take 30 days of paid vacation leave.
These five years will be counted from the 24th October 2019 which is the date of the commencement of the act.
Maternity Leave
An employee receives a one-time allowance of MUR 3,000 from her employer if she has been working for at least one year at the same company.
A female employee who has worked continuously for one year is entitled to 14 weeks of paid maternity leave, of which up to seven weeks can be taken before birth.
Female employees who miscarry are entitled to two weeks of leave immediately after the event. The two weeks are fully paid.
Paternity Leave
Male employees in Mauritius are entitled five continuous days of unpaid maternity leave after 12 months of service.
Paternity leave must be taken within two weeks from the date of the birth.
Parental Leave
There are no statutory provisions for parental leave.
Other Leave
No Info.
Marriage Leave
In Mauritius, employees may receive 6 days paid leave.
Bereavement Leave
Employees in Mauritius receive 3 days paid leave in the event of the of parents, sibling, spouse, or child.
Termination Process
Termination of the contract has been terminated by the employer when:
- The employer fails to pay monthly remuneration as promised
- The employer treats the employee in a bad manner
- The employer forces the employee to sign a resignation letter
Notice Period
Notice period in Mauritius can be made only when the following:
- The employee has received a minimum of seven days’ notice to answer the allegations made on them
- The employer has exhausted every possible option other than termination of the employee
- Within 10 days of learning about an employee’s alleged misconduct, the employer has informed the employee about it
- The employee has been given seven days’ notice to answer the allegations made on them
- The employer has tried every other course of action possible
Severance Pay
In Mali, employees with less than 12 months of service are not entitled to severance pay, severance allowance is calculated as follows:
- The equivalent of three months’ remuneration for every period of 12 months of continuous employment;
- For any additional period of less than 12 months, a sum equal to one-twelfth of the sum calculated in the point above, multiplied by the number of months during which the employee has been in employment.
Probation Period
Probation period is 1 to 3 months.
Working Hours
The standard working hours in Mauritius is 45 hours a week and 9 hours a day for five days a week.
Overtime
In Mauritius, any hour beyond 45 hours per week is counted as overtime
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