Morocoo
In the next few minutes, we’ll clear up all your questions about hiring remotely in Morocco: You’ll learn how you can hire there without setting up your own physical entity, spending thousands of dollars in fees, or wading into months of legal red tape. Shall we?
Country snapshot
CURRENCY
Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
EMPLOYER TAXES
21.09%
PAYROLL FREQUENCY
Monthly
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
Arabic
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 in Morocco is notoriously difficult—but not when you know what you’re doing. If you want to hire remote talent in Morocco, you have two options: Hire people as contractors, or hire them as employees.
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 Morocco 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 Morocco.
Employer tax
Family Benefits
Short Term Social Benefits
Long Term Social Benefits
Health Insurance
Professional Training Tax
* Social Solidarity (only for companies with annual net profits of 5 million to 40 million MAD)
** Social Solidarity (only for companies with annual net profits over 40 million MAD)
Paid Time Off (PTO)
PTO is calculated by the:
- After six months of continuous service, an employee begins earning 1.5 days of leave per month giving employees 18 days of annual leave.
- The duration of paid annual leave is increased by one and a half days every 5 years until a maximum of 30 days annual leave is reached.
Public Holidays
There are 12 public holidays.
Sick Days
The duration of sick leave entitlement provided to workers is dependent on how long they have been employed by their employer:
- Employees are entitled to 4 days or 8 half days of paid sick leave annually.
- If the absence lasts more than four days, the employee must inform the employer of the probable duration of absence and provide a medical certificate justifying the absence.
- An employer may have an employee resign if they miss more than 180 consecutive days during a period of one year due to sickness.
Maternity Leave
Pregnant employees receive 14 weeks of maternity leave, 7 of which must be used after birth.
Paternity Leave
Fathers receive 3 days of leave within the first month of the child’s birth.
Parental Leave
There is no parental leave apart from maternity and paternity leave.
Other Leave
Leave for Circumcision: 2 days
Leave for surgery on the spouse or dependent child: 2 days
Marriage Leave
The employee: 4 days
child of the employee or of a child from a previous marriage of the employee’s spouse: 2 days
Bereavement Leave
Spouse, of a child, of a small child, of an ascendant of the employee or of a child from a previous marriage of the employee’s spouse: 3 days
Brother, a sister of the employee, a brother or sister of the employee’s spouse or an ascendant of the spouse: 2 days
Termination Process
In order to terminate an employee, an employer must have sufficient reasons and provide notice.
Notice Period
The notice period in Morocco is:
For executives and similar positions:
- Less than 1 year – 1 month
- 1 year to 5 years – 2 months
- More than 5 years – 3 months
For employees:
- Less than 1 year – 8 days
- 1 year to 5 years – 1 month
- More than 5 years – 2 months
Severance Pay
The employee in the contract is entitled to compensation in the event of dismissal after 6 months of work in the same company.
The amount of the termination indemnity for each year or fraction of a year of actual work is equal to:
- 96 hours of salary for the first five years
- 144 hours of salary from 6 to 10 years
- 192 hours of salary from 11 to 15 years240 hours of salary for the period exceeding 15 years.
The termination indemnity is calculated on the basis of the average wages received during the fifty-two weeks preceding the termination of the contract.
Probation Period
All employment begins with a 1-week trial period.
Probation periods are set at:
- 3 months for executives and the like
- 1.5 months for employees
- The trial period can be renewed once.
The trial period with regard to fixed-term contracts may not exceed:
- 1 day per working week within the limit of 2 weeks if the contract is less than six months
- 1 month for a contract lasting more than 6 months.
Working Hours
Working hours for employees shall not exceed 8 hours a day or 44 hours a week.
Overtime
For additional hours between 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. employees will receive 125% their normal rate, 150% their normal rate from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., and 150%-200% their normal rate for work done on one of the weekly holidays.
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